古代典籍中的龙王及其文化寓意

The Long King of in Chinese Classics and Its Cultural Implicature

龙是神话传说中的神灵,在中国人心目中被视为崇高的精神象征。龙王,同样是神话传说中的神灵,并且有着与龙相同的呼风唤雨、掌握水脉大权的职司,可是他却没有具备龙的神圣与威严,非但如此,古代文人史官们对龙王的嘲弄与贬低,更使龙王几乎充满了人格化的性情而黯淡了神化的光彩。究其缘故,主要是因为其形象乃泊来于佛教文化,其资格终不厕于“国之典祀”,其寓意已演成为人们刺世嫉邪的矛头指向。

The long was one of the deities in legendary tales, which was taken as a lofty spirital image in the Chinese mind. Similarly, the Long King, another deity, who, like the Long, had the power of bringing about the storm and rain and controling all the waters, didn’t share the Long’s holiness and magnificence. Worse still, historical scholars and officials in charge of history writing ridiculed and depreciated the Long King in every possible way and added every personified character to him, greatly darkening his glory as a deity. The reason for this is mainly that, as an image from Buddhist culture, the mental status of the Long King was by no means comparable to the “national highlights”, whose implicature shows the society’s attack on the evil in the world.