“中区”与王夫之的中国观

“Zhongqu”and Wang Fuzhi's View of China

王夫之用"中区"的概念描述他心目中的中国。中区是由山川、海洋、沙漠等一系列自然界限所围定的地理区域,大致相当于明代的两京十三省的范围。中区的概念渊源于以山川定义华夏的传统,也与堪舆术中地气的理论有关,这是一种超越了王朝和正统观念的中国观,但与清代以来的多民族统一帝国的国家观念形成对立,并曾成为近代民族主义运动的渊源之一。

Wang Fuzhi used the concept of ＂zhongqu＂ to describe his idea of China. Zhongqu is defined by a series of natural boundaries including mountains, rivers, oceans, deserts, roughly equivalent to the scope of the 13 provinces in the Ming Dynasty. The origin of the concept is the theory of Qi in Fengshui theory. Since the establishment of a unified multi- ethnic empire the Qing Dynasty, zhongqu was considered a challenge to the empire, and has been one of the origins of modern nationalist movements.