中國以龍求雨習(xí)俗變遷研究

1、湘潭大學(xué)碩士學(xué)位論文中國以龍求雨習(xí)俗變遷研究姓名：張強(qiáng)申請學(xué)位級別：碩士專業(yè)：中國古代史指導(dǎo)教師：吉成名20080510II Abstract As an agriculture-based country from ancient times, the agricultural production in China maintains a pretty close relationship with rainwater. Howev

2、er, the special natural conditions bring frequent drought to this country. At that time, the lower productivity had not yet reached the level to resist droughts. And people couldn’t give a scientific explanation to the n

3、atural phenomenon of rain because of their extremely limited cognitive level, so they thought that the rainwater could be obtained by invocation. To achieve favorable weather, people often prayed for rain and formed a pr

4、ay-for-rain practice. As a mythical and legendary animal that only exists in the mind of people, the dragon was considered to be powerful to fan the flames of rain and cloud since ancient times, so it became the protagon

5、ist in pray-for-rain practices. Praying for rain with dragon was an important component of the production folk-custom of Han nationality; it also is accepted by minorities in the transmission process. With many factors,

6、including social progress, the ruling class’ respecting ,the people's utilitarian psychological factors, and the impaction of the introduction of Buddhism, the convention of praying for rain with dragon experienced a

7、 lot of changes: at first ,static imitation was used to induce the genuine dragon to bring rainwater, such as the production of mussels dragon, soil dragon, grass-painting dragon, and the lizards and geckos that were sim

8、ilar to the dragon had also became the objects of worship when drought came. Later, it was felt that dragon dances would induce the genuine dragon more easily, so people prayed for rain by the dragon dance. The static im

9、itation and dragon dances all have strong tinct of voodoo. Later, people took the dragons as gods, and therefore formed a dragon invocation. In this process, the dragon upgraded to King, dragon temples were built through

10、out the country. To avoid droughts; people also did the front-end emotional investment, and therefore formed a festival customs of dragon worship in lunar February 2 and lunar May 20. The variance of the convention of pr

11、ayer for rain has showed the characteristics of diversification, sacrificing amusing and so on. Make a comprehension of China's prayer for rain with dragon customs, merits and demerits mixed. It causes a lot of unnec

12、essary waste to the farmers, which gets even worse especially in the bad years. At the same time, it also affects social orders. However, it also strengthens the cohesion among the people. The custom of prayer for rain w