金箍棒与紧箍咒:一对多重文化象征符码

Golden-Hoop-Stick and Tightening Hoop-Incantation: A Couple of Codes of Cultural Representations

金箍棒与紧箍咒是《西游记》里著名的法器形象,包容着丰富的思想文化内蕴,具有多重的文化象征意义。金箍棒是表征着自由、生存、权力、欲望、理想等内容的文化符码,紧箍咒是体现着霸权、专制、枷锁、约束、惩罚等内容的文化符号。作者集金箍棒、紧箍咒于孙悟空一身的构思,客观上深刻揭示了中国文化讲求中和、适宜,以和为贵,强调多元和谐、协调异质、消解对立的"和合"文化意识。

Golden-Hoop-Stick and Tightening Hoop-Incantation are two famous magic figures in Journey to the West. They contain abundant thoughts and cultural symbolic meanings. Golden-Hoop-Stick represents the cultural codes of freedom, survival, power, desire and ideality while Tightening Hoop-Incantation incarnates the cultural codes of supremacy, autarchy, chains, restriction and punishment. The design of the author＇s gathering the two magic tools opens out the neutralization, affinity, peace of Chinese culture and cultural consciousness.