全真女冠与元代社会

• 作 者: 张方
• 机 构: 陕西省社会科学院宗教研究所,
• 出 处: 宗教学研究
• 发表日期: 2011年01期
• 关键词: 全真教 女冠 元代社会 贞节观念

元代社会道德观念的限制使得妇女的宗教活动更多地需要女性宗教师,而全真女冠们禁欲苦修的信条又契合元代社会道德观念对守节妇女的要求,得到了上层社会的广泛支持,从而形成了继唐代女冠热后又一个女性信仰道教的热潮。在这场热潮中虽然很多全真女冠表现出了封建社会女性难得的独立意识和平等精神。但是,在男女不平等的封建社会大环境下,即使在标榜平等的全真教内,她们也很难获取真正的平等。

Restrictions on the concept of social morality in the Yuan Dynasty made women’s religious activities require more female religious teachers, and the creed of the Absolute Women’s Aristocrats who abstinence from cultivation did fit the demands of the conservative women in the social moral values ​​of the Yuan Dynasty and gained wide-ranging Support, thus forming the women’s crown after the Tang Dynasty heat another female faith Taoism boom. Although many true women’s crowns show the rare feminine sense of independence and equality in feudal society in this craze. However, in the context of an unequal feudal society, men and women find it very difficult to obtain true equality, even within the banner of equality as a whole.