底层文化对上层文化的逆袭——论明清亳州割股疗亲陋俗

The Counteroffensive of the Lower-class Culture Against the Upper-class Culture: On Bozhou Folk Custom of Cutting oneself to Cure Relatives in the Ming and Qing Dynasties

割股疗亲是源自中国民间的一种底层文化,是中国古代民间为救治患病亲人而采取的一种自残身体的做法,主要体现在晚辈对长辈的治病过程中,是中国孝文化中一种极端表现。明清统治阶级(上层文化)并不提倡这种做法,但在明清时期的亳州,由于各种原因促使这种陋俗行为逆势而行,深刻影响了上层文化,形成了这一时期亳州独特的孝文化。

Cutting oneself to cure relatives is a kind of the lower-class culture that stems from the Chinese folk custom,which is a behavior of self-mutilation in ancient China. The folk custom can be found in Chinese ancient times when the juniors help their elders to cure illness,which is an extreme behavior in the Chinese culture of filial duty. The rulers of the Ming and Qing dynasties do not advocate the behavior,but the folk custom is still popular in Bozhou in the Ming and Qing dynasties due to various reasons,which has a profound effect on the upper-class culture and forms unique culture of filial duty in Bozhou at that time.