论西南少数民族水文化的主要特征

On the main characteristics of southwest ethnic water culture

纵观目前少数民族水文化的研究现状,大多数成果集中在对单一民族水文化的内涵与功能的静态描述与分析,鲜有对作为一个水生态共同体的少数民族水文化整体运行的独特性与内在规律的动态解析。西南少数民族水文化是中华水文化的重要组成部分,它具有中华水文化一般的特点,也具有鲜明的个性特征。西南少数民族水文化主要有神圣性、全民性、整体性、生活化、生态性与局限性六大特征。西南少数民族水文化的任何一个特征,事实上在日常的水事活动中,均不可能单独存在和运行,它们共同构成一个联动的整体,在西南少数民族水文化实践中,共时存在,同时表征。

Based on the present studies of ethnic water culture, most findings focused on static description and analysis of the connotation and functions of a single ethnic water culture, rarely on dynamic analysis of the uniqueness and internal law of overall operation of ethnic water culture as a water ecological community. As a part of China’s water culture, southwest ethnic water culture has both the general characteristics of China’s water culture and its own distinctive characteristics. Southwest ethnic water culture is of six main characteristics： sacredness, nationality, integrity, living, ecology and limitation. Any characteristic of southwest ethnic water culture, in fact in everyday water activities is not likely to exist and run alone. Together they form a linked whole, exist and represent simultaneously in the practice of southwest ethnic water culture.