《盘王大歌》中的神话类型与族群认同

The Types of Myths in the Yao's Classics The Complete Panwang Ballads and Their Ethnic Identity

神话是构成族群认同的重要文化元素。瑶族典籍《盘王大歌》中存在着多种不同的神话类型,如创世神话、洪水神话、祖源神话、婚恋神话等等。这些神话是瑶族民族性的文化表征,对维系和加强瑶族人们的族群认同起着非常重要的作用。它们既揭示了瑶族独特的民族性,也与汉族同类神话表现出某种程度的亲缘性和相似性。这说明瑶族人们不仅重视自身族群身份的构建,而且对汉瑶同属于炎黄子孙的族群理念也有着一定的认同。

Myths are important cultural elements in the identification of ethnic groups. There are manifold myths in the Yao’s classics The Complete Panwang Ballads,such as creation myth,flood myth,origin myth,and marriage and love myth and so on. As the cultural representations of the Yao’ s nationality, these myths play a very important role in maintaining and strengthening the Yao people’s ethnic group identification. The myths in The Complete Panwang Ballads have disclosed Yao’s unique nationalities and displayed certain affinity to and similarity with the same kinds of myths in the Han’s culture. This indicates that the Yao people not only emphasize the construction of their own ethnic identity but also approve the ethnic idea that the Han and the Yao both belong to the descendents of the Yan and Huang emperors to some degree.