民俗视域下的历史文献研究

The Study of Historical Literature from the Folklore Perspective

中国是一个民俗史料、民俗著作丰富的国家。对历史民俗文献的整理和研究既是中国民俗学的优势,也是中国民俗学研究不能忽视的的学术重点。在民俗学视野下进行历史民俗文献研究,要求对"历史民俗文献"进行准确的学术界定,充分发掘并重视历史民俗文献研究的价值和意义,并对历史民俗文献的整理和研究提出科学的理论和方法。早期的民俗学者以严谨的学风开创了历史民俗文献的学术风尚,现今中外学者也在不同程度上取得了一定的学术研究成果,有力地推动了历史民俗文献研究的学术进程。同时,历史民俗文献研究存在着许多研究薄弱或缺失方面,这一方面说明学术研究的缺失偏颇,另一方面也启示这是有待开发的学术宝库。

China has rich historical folklore and folk writings. There are advantages in the collation of and research on Chinese historical folk literature and it is an academic focus that cannot be ignored in Chinese folklore studies. To conduct historical folk literature studies from the perspective of folklore, an accurate definition of ＂historical folk literature＂ is required, thus fully exploring and appreciating the value and significance of historical folk literature studies, and putting forward the theory and methods of scientific historical folk literature collation and research. Early folklorists created a strict academic study style by rigorous studying historical folk literature. Nowadays Chinese and foreign scholars have also achieved some academic results, which have strongly promoted the process of academic research in the history of folk literature. Meanwhile, there are many weak or deficient aspects to the research of historical folk literature. This shows the deficiency of academic research, and on the other hand it is an field worthy to be developed.