中日两国猴形象初探——从民间文学角度看中日两国的猴子形象

Sino-Japan Monkey Images: From the Perspective of Folk Literature

中国的猴文化源远流长,而一衣带水的日本与猴也有很深的渊源。中日两国虽然在经济文化上交往频繁,但两国的猴形象却有着不小的差别,特别是在猴的文化意象方面。本文试图通过对中日两国民间故事类型的分析,找出两国猴形象的差别,并进一步探究这种形象差别形成的原因。

The monkey culture in China goes back to ancient times,and its close neighbor Japan is also deeply connected with monkeys. Despite frequent economic and cultural exchanges between China and Japan,monkey images of the two countries,especially their cultural images,are quite different from each other. Based on the types of folktales in China and Japan,this paper intends to find out the differences of monkey images in both countries,and it further explores the underlying causes of the image differences.