《大地》中生育俗仪的皖北地域风情

Childbirth Customs and Rituals in The Good Earth Trilogy and Regional Culture in Northern Anhui

民俗文化会受到民族居住区的自然环境的制约,且民俗文化能反映当时当地的社会发展、经济水平、生产和生活方式的特征。赛珍珠《大地》对皖北民俗文化的原生态描绘保留了中国宗法制农民“民俗生态学”的原型,如其中的生育俗仪展现了淮北平原上皖北农村生动而真实的生活画面,还映射了皖北地区独特的地理风貌、封建意识和儒道思想等。异乡人赛珍珠虽暂居皖北宿州仅数年,但其原生态的描述贴近当时的社会现状,体现了皖北大地原汁原味的民俗风情和地域文化。

Folk customs would be restricted by natural environmental conditions of the residential region and its forming would synchronize with social development,production level,economical features and conditions of this region.Pearl Buck's The Good Earth Trilogy describes the original folk customs in Northern Anhui to form the prototype of "folk customs of ecology" for the patriarchal farmers in China,especially,the childbirth customs and rituals portray vividly an authentic country life of Northern Anhui in Huaihe River Plain.It also reflects the unique geographic features,feudal consciousness,and Confucian and Taoist ideas and so on in Northern Anhui.Though Pearl Buck only lived in Suzhou of Northern Anhui temporarily,her original representation of these customs and rituals is so close to the social reality at that time,reveals the exotic charm and regional culture in Northern Anhui.