中国早期文明与社会福利的萌芽形态

现代人归入社会福利的某些观念和体制，在明初期的礼俗形式中其实已经有朦胧的体现。可以看作中国社会福利之历史先声的明初期有关现象的片断遗存，是认识当时历史化的宝贵资料，也是探索中国社会福利史的重要线索。认识有关历史化现象，除了进行必要的考古学和献学考察之外，还可以借用神话学和民族学的收获。

Chines Early Civilization and Social Welfare in Embryo

Some ideas and systems that are applied to social welfare by modern man could be vaguely seen in the social custom in early civilization.The fragments and remains about Chinese early civilization, which could be regarded as the origin of Chinese social welfare, are precious resources of studying the history and culture at that time and important clues for exploring the history of Chinese social welfare. To recoganize the relative historical and cultral phenomena, one can take advantage of the achievements of methology and ethnology in addition to necessary archaeological and bibliographical study.