浅析华锐藏族白牦牛文化的生成及延续

On the Birth and Continuation of the White-yak Culture in Huarui Tibetans

1973年,在甘肃省天祝藏族自治县哈溪镇出土了一件硕大的牦牛青铜器,本文以该牦牛青铜器为切入点,尝试探讨作为自然之物的白牦牛为何会衍变为文化之物、它又是如何由物化形象变成文化符号的、这种文化符号何以被固定下来并得以传承和发展等问题。

In the light of the yak bronze unearthed in the Haxi Town of Tianzhu Tibetan Autonomous County of Gansu province in 1973, this article attempts to probe into the following questions ： why did the natural white yak change into a cultural white yak, how did it materialize into a cultural symbol, and how was this cultural inheritance and development of the symbol fixed？