中国神话史研究的若干问题

A Number of Issues about the Study of the History of Chinese Myth

20世纪前期的中国神话史研究者主要是茅盾和顾颉刚。茅盾的进化论是历史的视角,但其视野仅及原始社会;顾颉刚的专题神话史也是过程研究,注意到了神话发展的动力问题。20世纪后期,袁珂的广义神话学的观念拓展了神话学的空间。神话史研究着眼于神话与社会的互动,是在社会矛盾与神话的运动中把握神话历史发展轨迹的。对待原生态的神话和次生延续的神话,是神话史研究不得不辨析的大问题。

In the early 20th century Chinese mythology and history researchers were mainly Mao Dun and Gu Xiegang. Mao Dun＇s evolutionism is a historical perspective, but it＇s only about primitive society; Gu Xiegang＇s special study on mythology history is the process research, and pays attention to the driving force for the development of myth. In the late 20th century, Yuan Ke＇s broad concept of myth opens the space of myth. Research of myth history focuses on the interaction between myth and society, and understands its historical development in social contradictions and movement trajectory. Treatment of the myth of the original ecological renewal and secondary myth is the big problem that the history of myth has to discriminate.