风物传说:神话时代的地理志及其思维方式

Legends of Local Scenery: Geography Records and Way of Thinking in the Age of Mythology

神话时代物我不分的思维方式决定了风物传说所书写的地理志是囊括了叙述者在内的对自然空间的整体性阐释,它与"物我有别"的思维方式下排除叙述者的"俯瞰"或"侧望"式的"客观"地理志完全不同。自然空间对文化的发生与发展产生影响,风物传说则是人对自然空间的阐释。"物我不分"的认知方式具有整体性认知事物的眼界,但必然带有混沌性;"物我有别"的思维方式在帮助我们更深刻地认知事物的同时,亦因事物之间边界的模糊而带给我们难以克服的困惑。

In the Age of Mythology, the way of thinking was characterized by integrating subject into object in literature creation. This led to geography records written in legends of local scenery which included a holistic interpretation of natural space of the narrators, and which was completely different from objective geography records having distinctions between subject and object and removing bird view and side view of the narrators. Since cultural development is influenced by natural space, legends of local scenery reflect people＇ s interpretation of space. The cognitive mode of integrating subject and object presents a holistic view of cognition with inevitable ambiguity, while the mode of thinking to distinguish subject from object can help us deeply understand objects, and at the same time, cause confusions due to its ambiguous distinction between objects.