辐与辏:史前中原文化优势的确立——兼论早期中国与华夏文明观的形成

Wheel Spokes and Their Concentration to the Hub: the Establishment of the Prehistorical Central Plains Cultural Advantages——Also on the Formation of Early China and Chinese Civilization' worldviews

从三代到唐宋,国家人口、政治与文化中心基本上没有远离从西安至开封、以中岳嵩山为中心的黄河中下游一带。这种历史格局的形成,有一个发生发展的长期过程,其中庙底沟化和二里头化是史前时期最重要的两次奠基性文化整合和提升运动,它们使得中原地区在相对独立的几个早期区域性文化传统的相互作用中脱颖而出,并影响到中国早期文明的天道观、人文观以及国家与意识形态结构。本文以农业村落的诞生为起点,追寻从旧石器时代晚期的基底上区域性文化传统在早期中国形成、演变、碰撞融合并最终形成中原中心的历史过程,并试图解释此一过程赋予的中国文化与文明的若干特点。

During the long history from Xia to the Song dynasties, the center of population, politics and culture stayed at the Central Plains around the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River for about three thousand years. this is the result of a long progress of the prehistory cultural development. The agriculture economy and village life made the foundation of regional cultural traditions, among them Miaodigou and Erlitou are two major expanding and synthesizing periods which established the core of Huaxia ethnic groups and cultural tradition, leading to the formation of Chinese civilization.