当前西方学界正在讨论的“中国宗教研究应该符合其自身现实”的问题,早在一百多年前,已由法国学者何鲁特(J.J.M.de Groot)提出过。他在研究厦门岁时节日一书的前言中,反对迷信中国上层经典的做法,认为从上层经典中勾稽中国宗教资料,不一定符合中国大众 At present, western academics are discussing the issue that “studies of Chinese religions should conform to their own reality.” More than a hundred years ago, the French scholar J. J. de Groot put forward the question. In his preface to the book Aged in Xiamen, he objected to the superstition of the upper classics in China and held that it is not necessarily in line with the Chinese religious materials from the upper classics,