羌族民间道教信仰浅析

羌族民间宗教与道教的关系源远流长。道教在西蜀的初创和传播,吸收了不少羌族民间宗教的成分。羌族巫师传承的历史文化背景,反映出羌族民间宗教与道教古来关系甚密。道教的多神崇拜,正建立在民间由“万物有灵”的原始观念演绎而出的原始多神信仰的基础之上,这自然就与羌族民间多神信仰相融汇或取而代之。而佛、道合一的信仰形式,则表现了羌族民间道教信仰的显著特征。

Brief Expositions on Folk Beliefs of Taoism of the Qiang People

The relationship between folk religion of the Qiang people and Taoism has a very long history.Taoism absorbed much of folk religion of the Qiang people when originating and spreading in West Sichuan.The historical culture background disseminated and carried on by the Qiangs' priest takes a reflection in a close relationship of folk religion of the Qiang people and Taoism from ancient times to the modern.Polytheism of Taoism is just established on the base of the primitive polytheism deduced from the primeval ideas of "animism",so it is naturally mixed together with folk religion of the Qiang people or replaces it.And the fashion of beliefs of combining Buddhism and Taoism into one shows the remarkable feature of the folk beliefs of Taoism of the Qiang people.