陶渊明对生命一体的神话精神的复活

The Revival of Mythology Spirit of Solidarity of Life by Tao Yuan-ming

陶渊明的读书方式,使其容易通过审美而与神话精神直接感通。以往人们关注陶渊明与神话的关系,多集中在意识的显在层面,而忽略了潜在层面。陶渊明所接受的神话精神,最根本的一点不是源自刑天、精卫和夸父神话的抗争精神,而是物我生命一体的精神。这主要表现在陶诗对拟人手法的恢复和发展上,也表现在“化物”以回归自然的生命实践上。

It was much easies for Tao Yuan-ming to undestand by sense the spirit of mythology through the style that he read books. Formerly, people paid much attention to the relationship between Tao Yuanming and myth on the level of consciousness, though little stress being placed on subconsciousness. The foundamental spirit of mythology that Tao Yuan-ming accepted was not the fighting spirit from mythic images Xingtian,Jingwei and Kuafu, but the spirit of solidarity of life, which was shown both in restoring and developing the skill of personification, and in life practice to combine subject with object in order to be back to nature.