多义的“差遣”——洪秀全“奇梦叙事”的符号人类学分析

The Polysemous “Sending”——A Symbolic Anthropologic Analysis of Hong Xiuquan's “Narration of Unusual Dreams”

太平天国的拜上帝教固然自称是基督教的一种形式,其实却又非常不同于西方的基督教。在太平天国镌刻的书籍中几乎都记载着洪秀全的一则创教"奇梦",解读此一"奇梦叙事",可以看到"奇梦"的一大基础乃是中国民间信仰传统和家族伦理,由此,基督教传统中具有时间性的"差遣"的单数形式被移位为空间性的"差遣"的复数形式。而拜上帝教贯通基督教传统和中国民间信仰传统,从而建立其崭新象征符号系统的关键,即在于这样一种对"差遣"的理解和运用。

There was an unusual dream narration in almost all of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom' books.The cause of this narration lay in the requirements of Chinese folk beliefs,which were based on traits of family ethics.The Religion of Worship of God(RWG) of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was not like the Christian tradition,which placed 'sending' of Christ,a singular form in time,at the centre of the Christian belief,creatively transforming it into a plural form in space.However,this was a creative measure taken by Hong Xiuquan and the RWG to remedy the problem between Christian faith and native consciousness.The key of this transformation was a special understanding and utilization of 'sending'.