民间故事《虎拐卯池彩欧翠》的功能性母题解析

On the Functional Motif of Folk Tale “The Tiger Kidnapped Maochicaioucui”

民间故事《虎拐卯池彩欧翠》在云南和贵州的苗族地区广泛流传,异文多达二十余种,从故事形态、角色和功能三方面进行分析,可发现它表现了人类早期社会的婚姻观念,这个共同的功能性母题反映了西南少数民族"人虎互变"的民间思想观念,是古代人类婚恋历史变迁的复杂隐喻。

The folk tale ＂The Tiger Kidnapped Maochicaioucui＂is popular in the Miao areas of Yunnan and Guizhou,occurring in over a score of copies. This paper explores the tale in three aspects,namely,plot,roles and function,showing that it reveals the concept of marriage of early human society. It is argued that the common functional motif reflects the folk notion of ＂interchange between humans and tigers＂of southwest China＇s minority people and that it is a complex metaphor for the historic development of human marriage throughout history.