上善若水——浅论中国文化中的“水”

As Good as Water: On Water in Chinese Culture

水为万物之源,具有众多的矛盾统一性,如生与死,动与静,有与无,刚与柔,净与污等。随着对水认识地不断深入,中华民族心性也随之渐变,从水灾恐慌到自然敬畏,再到水性崇拜,认识与心性的慢慢积淀,又通过演绎、归纳、抽象而逐步发展、成熟,而产生了阴阳五行,风水文化等,也形成了道家有无相生、无为而治、道法自然等哲学观。

Water is the source of all things. It is the unity of many contradictions, such as life and death, dynamic and static, existence and non-existence, ngld and sort, net ann pOUUUO^h accumulation of knowledge of water, the idea of Chinese people changed from awe of the flood to reverence to nature, and then to worship to water. Their understandings slowly got accumulated, and through deduction, induction, abstraction gradually developed and became mature, which then led to the＂ Yinyang＂, ＂Wuxing＂ and ＂Fengshui＂ culture, and the Taoist theory of ＂coming into being with and without each other＂, ＂governing without doing anything＂, and ＂the Tao following the nature＂.