先秦时期的昆虫文化

On the Insect Culture during the Period of Xian-Qin

昆虫已经成为先秦时期人们一种更为自觉的食物来源,丰富着人们的饮食生活。在社会生活层面上,先秦时期人们对于有些进入自己生活的昆虫采取一定的办法进行驱除。在政治层面上,有些害虫成了国家灾难或者政治罪过的象征。在农业生活层面上,先民们对于昆虫的生态习性有非常细致的观察,对昆虫活动影响农耕或有危害国家农业安全的现象有深刻的认识。桑蚕业的产生也是昆虫与农业生活的重要表现。在精神生活层面上,有些昆虫愉悦着人们的听觉和视觉,但是有些昆虫给人们带来烦恼,常被用来特指某些社会事象。不仅如此,有些昆虫被用作丰富的汉字表达,被用作生育文化的代称,被比作人生的短暂,成为崇拜对象,用来进行某种预测,以及用作文学性描述等,这些都是昆虫与人们精神生活发生关系的体现。

The insects have become the source of food conscientiously to people during the period of Xian - Qin, which enrich people＇s food life. From the angle of the social life, people that time drive out some insects which invade people＇s life by some way. From the angle of politics, some insects become somewhat emblems of national calamity and political offense. From the angle of agricultural life, people that time carefully observe the insects＇ habits and characteristics, deeply recognize the phenomena which the insects affect the agriculture or harm the safety of the national agriculture. The outcome of the sericulture is also the important expression about the relation which between the insects and the agricultural life. From＇s the angle of spirit, some insects give people such happy as delight peoples sense of hearing and insight. But some insects often bring trouble to people, and being pointed out some social items. Furthermore, some insects are expressed as plentiful Chinese characters, regarded as the birth culture, analogized as the short duration of life, worshipped, used to forecast, and used to describe something by literature, and all these affairs are expressions between the insects and the spiritual life from people.