傣族的人水亲和观:诗性智慧抑或生态智慧

On the Compatibility between the Human Being & Water Developed by Dai People: Poetic Wisdom or Ecological Wisdom

云南世居少数民族——傣族是一个敬水的民族,在他们的意识中,水不但在傣族的生产生活中占据重要地位,水还伴随着傣族生命礼仪的每个过程,泼水节承载了傣家人祈求风调雨顺、五谷丰登的美好愿望,滴水仪式则是"赕"的必备条件,在这种敬水与爱水的文化中,傣家人形成了"没有森林就没有水,没有水就没有农田,没有农田就没有粮食,没有粮食就不能生活"的生态智慧,并在他们的神话、仪式、节庆及日常生活中将人与水的关系演绎得淋漓尽致,傣族的有关水的神话、水的仪式以及日常生活经验对水的感知与认知,凸显了傣族的人水亲和观。

Dai People, as ethnic minority living in Yunnan generation after generation, revered water as a gift from the heaven. For them, water doesn’t only play an important part in their production and living, but also appear in every course of the life rites. In Water Splashing Festival, Dai people expresses their best wishes towards best harvest; the rite of the dripping water is an essential part of Dan, which means consecrating to the God. In such circumstance, Dai people form the ecological wisdom of “we have no water without forest; we have no farming land without water; we have no food without farmland; and at last we can’t live without food.”This wisdom can be found in the fairy tale, the rituals, the festivals and their daily life. In the article, after sorting out the perception and cognition towards water, the writers conclude that the Dai People has formed compatibility between Dai People and water.