A Study Of The Belief In Prayer For Wealth In Chinese Ancient Times

The culture, such as divination and similar arts, statue, writing Scriptures, religious services, magic, witchcraft of breeding legendary venomous insects, cultural relics of folklore, folklore of prayer for wealth, was very popular among the people in Chinese ancient times. This paper relatively thoroughly researches on the belief in prayer for wealth that has been in vogue up to now, making use of these historical materials that has been always overlooked and belittled, in order to analyze its cultural connotation, discriminate its essence and dross and bring to light its development law. I hope this paper has contribute to correctly recognize folk belief, more validly eliminate irrational practices and sweep away superstitious belief and is able to do my bit in building and enhancing national culture under the socialist market-oriented economy circumstance.The paper includes the following contents.Introduction. This part mainly introduces the reason for selecting this topic for research and the present situation of the topic, defines the belief in prayer for wealth, delimits the area of the research, states the meaning, purpose and train of thought of the research and declares the source of the materials of the paper and study method.I Researching on the pre-Qin folk belief in prayers for wealth. This part has Rishu written on the Qin Dynasty bamboo strips as its center and researches on the pre-Qin folk belief in prayers for wealth combining with pre-Qin literature...