在国与民中彷徨——试论“五·四”时期之歌谣研究

A Discussion of the Research on the Ballads of the Period of the May 4th Movement

1918年北京大学发起歌谣征集运动,知识分子开始大规模研究歌谣,关注民俗,借用民间文学和民俗,在学术的历史想象和文学的建构中构筑新型的国家秩序。然而,随着朱自清、周作人等知识分子对民众的文学和国民性的深入思考,他们对民间的矛盾态度越来越深刻。

In 1918, Peking University started the movement of collecting ballads, and then intellectuals began to make a lot of researches on ballads, paid much attention to folkways, used folk literature and folk customs, and established a new-pattern national order through academic historical imagination and literary construction. However, as some of the intellectuals, like Zhu Ziqing and Zhou Zuoren etc., thought more deeply over the common peoples literature and nation, their attitude towards the masses became more and more contradictory.