林语堂对民俗学之影响探述

A Study on Lin Yutang's Influence on Folklore

林语堂是一位语言学家、也是一位多产的作家,对于民俗学,尤其福建闽南的民俗研究,更具有开创性的地位。透过他的关系,把当时对民俗学有深入研究的北大学者聘请南下。带动起整个福建的民俗研究热潮,尤其对闽南文化的发扬,更是不遗余力。中国民俗文化的这片沃土,也提供林语堂创作时的题材元素,相辅相成,透过他的作品流传,也让中国民俗学扬名于海外。而他对民俗文化的认知、提示,在资料的搜集、调查、研究上,都具有先锋示范作用,同时带领出许多优秀的民俗研究者,投入对福建闽南的民俗研究。为我们留下了一大批充满民族色彩、民俗风情的作品和宝贵的研究数据。他组织文人学者开展福建民俗的调查,也开创福建现代民俗学研究的意义。至今,我们犹能感觉到他那颗活泼、跃动、至诚、至善幽默的心。

Lin Yutang is a linguist and a prolific writer. He played a pioneering role in folklore, especially in Fujian.Under his influence, folklore-proficient scholars from Peking University at that time were hired to go south, which promoted the folklore research boom in Fujian as a whole, especially the development of Minnan culture. Chinese folk culture provides material for Lin Yutang’s writing, which in turn made Chinese folklore well known overseas. He set an excellent example in the cognition of Chinese folk culture, in the collection of information, investigation and research, which led many outstanding folklore researchers to study Minnan folk culture. He provided us with a large number of works with national tradition and custom and valuable research data, making obvious the significance of the study of modern folklore in Fujian.