试论南岭瑶族的文化智慧

On Cultural Wisdom of Ethnic Yao in South China Nanling Region

中国文化智慧既体现在圣人之言和经典文献之中,也深涵在中国各民族生命实践的整个过程。千百年来,南岭瑶族在特定的区域生态环境中获取滋养民族生命的自然资源,奉行以"两头扯"为核心的可协商式的婚姻居住与家庭血脉继承制度,传承着自成一体的精神信仰模式。这些文化智慧让瑶族人得以安所遂生,精神安详,心灵幸福,并且对于重新认识瑶族文化的文明史价值,推进瑶族文化保护和现代文化建设,具有重要的启迪意义。

The wisdom of Chinese culture is not only reflected in the words of saints and classic literature, hut also deeply contained in the whole process of life practice of all ethnic groups in China. For hundreds of years, the Yao ethnic group in South China Nanling mountain region has been obtaining natural resources to nourish their lives from the specific regional ecological environment, practicing negotiable marital resi- dence and blood inheritance system crossing the general borderline between husband and wife, and inherit- ing the distinct spiritual belief model. Such cultural wisdom renders the Yao ethnic group＇s adaptation to the environment, spiritual serenity, and happiness of soul; meanwhile it provides an important enlighten- ment to re-evaluate Yao culture in the history of human civilization and promotes the preservation and modernization of Yao culture.