| 英文摘要 |
Basically, the religions of Ming Dynasty include Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism, and they're three in one. However, female were not permitted to go into the temple to worship and pray by Ming's law. This phenomenon is not regulated in the late Ming Dynasty. As Roman Roland said：“Religion is not a knowledge. It's a behavior. Only when it is practiced, it makes sense. The popular literature records the folk culture, and represents the folk ideology as well as the popular religion of ordinary citizens. It's literary meaning is quite significant.The collections of Ming folk songs reflects the religious diversity among the ordinary people. Choosing one of the representative Ming ballads "Gua Zhi Er", this paper use text analysis to explore the relationship between the female emotions and folk religion. The main points include the types of popular religion and how they were caused by the popular female's emotional life, the importance and functions of folk religion regarding with the popular female emotional life, and the significance of folk beliefs for the marketplaces' female minds and spirits. All the points demonstrate the characteristics of folk religion among popular females. The significance of this study is to provide a reference of the female religion from "Gua Zhi Er" to the synchronic female writings of Ming ballads, and to complement the study of popular female and folk religion for the diachronic topics about female and religion. |
