“叙天地”与中国叙事观念的萌生

The Relationship between“ Narrating Universe”and Emerging of Chinese Narrative Concept

"叙天地"的历史含义是在"绝地天通"的背景下规划天人秩序,此事件一则在认识论层面,通过天神、天道而为宇宙立法命名,抽取出天地万物的秩序及条理,认识到天地万事之"序";二则在实践论层面,将"序"运用于人事。因而,"叙天地"的深层含义是人事的秩序化,从而也是人事的意义化;从这个意义上说,"叙天地"就是叙事,是思维及行为层面的叙事,它标志着叙事思维及行为的自觉,并奠定了中国叙事观念的结构初形。

The historic meaning of ＂narrating universe＂ is to plan the order between man and nature under the backdrop of ＂JueDiTianTong＂ （heaven and earth, human and Gods are separated） which includes two meanings. The first is to understand the order of universe by setting laws on universe through Gods and extract orders of things on epistemology; the second is to apply the orders to human？s business on practice. Thus, the in-depth meaning of ＂narrating universe＂ is the regularization of human＇s business, namely the meaningfulness of human＇s business. From this point of view, ＂narrating universe＂ is narrative on thought and behavior which marks the awareness of narrative thought and behavior, and lays foundation of the original structure of Chinese narrative concept.