历史人类学视域下的青铜礼乐器社会教化功能述论

A Historical Anthropologic Perspective to the Social Enlightening Function of Bronze Ritual Instruments

社会教化是一种化诱万民以维系社会统治的政治工具与社会软调控手段,为历代统治者所重视。从历史人类学视域下观照,先秦礼乐社会时期,时人创见了"外物以饰内情"的社会教化方式,青铜礼乐器成为这种教化方式的物质载体,并承载了道德教化、伦理教化、政治教化、警示教化等丰富的教化功能。这种社会教化方式与礼乐文明构成一个有机整体,对先秦社会的良性运行、中华文化的形成具有重要影响。

The rulers attached importance to the social enlightenment,which was a kind of political tool to civilize nations and sustain the social rule.It was also a kind of soft social control measure.From the historical anthropologic horizon,contemporaries created the social cultivation mode of'using the foreign object to act the role of the ropes'in the Pre-Qin Period of ritual music of civilization.Bronze ritual instrument became the material carrier of social cultivation mode,which had rich enlightenment function of moral,ethical,political,and warning enlightenment.This kind of social education mode constituted an organic whole with ritual music of civilization,which had important influence on the benign operation and the formation of Chinese culture in the Pre-Qin Period.