顺服与反抗:关于“天子地”故事的文化分析

Obedience and Resistance:A Cultural Analysis of the Stories of “The Land of the Emperor”

"天子地"是中国民间故事很常见的一个类型。借鉴文化记忆的理论,从中国政治文化传统中的"正统论"入手,尝试分析该故事类型作为一种"神话化的历史",如何深刻地反映了民间社会的双重文化记忆,即"作为顺服的回忆"和"作为反抗的回忆"。而风水术数作为一种象征文化系统或知识—实践体系,参与阐释和传达了中国"大一统"政治思想传统,进而左右了中国人在"事生事死"活动中的历史心性、行为模式。

"The Land of the Emperor" is a very common type of Chinese folktales.This paper draws on the theory of cultural memory and starts with the "orthodoxy" in China's political and cultural traditions,trying to analyze the story type as a"mythical history"and profoundly reflecting the dual cultural memory of civil society,that is,"recollection of obedience" and "Memory of rebellion".As a symbol of cultural system or knowledge-practice system,Feng Shui is involved in explaining and conveying the Chinese political and ideological tradition of"unification",and consequently determining the Chinese historical mind and behavior pattern in the "life-and-death" activities.