灵性与野性:中外变形故事折射出的自然观与生态内涵

The Spiritual and the Wild:Concepts of Nature and Ecological Significance in Chinese and Foreign Stories of Transformations

中外变形故事的集大成者莫过于《聊斋志异》和奥维德的《变形记》,它们以独特的方式反映人与自然间的情感想象关系。中外变形故事以生命形态的变化表现人与自然的情感想象联系的特点与差异,展现变形所包含的中外生态思想内涵,传递着中外生命形态变形均坚持的能量传递、彼此关联和统一整体三个基本原则。在此基础上,《聊斋志异》的变形故事更是体现了中国自然观的灵性特点,而《变形记》为代表的外国变形故事体现的是西方自然观中的野性特点。

The most representative world stories of transformations are Supernatural Tales from the Liao Chamber by Pu Songling and The Metamorphoses by Ovidius, both of which uniquely represent the emotional relations between man and nature through fanciful imagination. This article compares the manners of the transformation of the forms of lives, explores the characteristics and differences between such stories, and probes into the ecological thought as revealed by the stories. We find that both types of such stories superbly apply the ecological principles of energy transference, interconnectedness, and nature as a complete ecosystem. We also find that the Supernatural Tales from the Liao Chamber delineates nature as a spiritual being and the Western counterpart, a wild other.