“生活革命”与中国民俗学的方向

"Life Revolution" and the Direction of Chinese Folkloristics

以改革开放以来近40年之久的经济高速增长、都市化进程和社会结构的巨变等为背景,当代中国发生了大规模和大面积的"生活革命"。普通国民以衣、食、住、用、行等为核心的日常生活方式持续地处于变迁和重构状态,新的"都市型生活方式"已经初步确立并正在全国范围内迅速普及。生活革命不断改变着一般国民之日常生活的基本形貌,新的现代社会的"日常"也在不断地得以形塑和刷新。通过对当代中国已经、正在和即将发生的生活革命进程的初步梳理,笔者尝试为中国民俗学的现代转型提示明确的方向:亦即直面和正视当前中国城乡民众最为基本的现代日常生活,尤其要对普通百姓作为生活者究竟是如何在其各自全新的现代日常生活的实践中创造出人生的意义予以足够的关注。

A large-scale 'life revolution' has taken place in contemporary China under the background of a nearly 40-year high-speed economic growth,urbanization and great changes of social structure.Common people's core daily lifestyle has been continuously changing and reconstructing.A new kind of 'urban lifestyle' has been preliminarily established,and is being rapidly popularized nationwide.The life revolution is constantly changing the basic form of common people's daily life,and meanwhile the 'daily life' in a new modern society is continuously being shaped and renovated.Based on a preliminary review of revolutionary process of the past,today to future,the author attempts to suggest a clear direction for the modern transformation of Chinese folkloristics:folklorists should directly face the most basic modern life of people in rural and urban China,especially give enough attention to how common people create the meanings of life in their completely new modern daily life practices.