《尘埃落定》:传统藏文化的历史悲歌与现代跨越

Red Poppies:Historical Elegy and Modern Leap of Traditional Tibetan Culture

阿来小说《尘埃落定》是描写现代力量冲击下康巴部族土司制度逐渐衰朽溃败的民族史诗,是对藏地部族生活的历史书写与人性复现,隐含着一种现代民族国家转型的宏大叙事。罂粟等的植入,既促进了康藏地区的暂时繁荣,又搅动了土司们的无尽欲望,进而动摇了土司制度赖以存在的经济根基。外部力量的迅猛介入和政治改造,实现了传统藏区跨越式的现代性转型,而其单一均质化的现代性思维,在某种程度上,给传统藏族人民带来了精神创伤。阿来以诗化的方式反思现代性,展现其历史哲学、人性追问、人道主义关怀、多元文化想象,对当下社会的文化转型具有重要的借鉴意义。

A Lai’s novel,Red Poppies,is a national epic that describes the gradual decay and collapse of the chieftain system of the kangba tribe under the impact of modern forces,and is a historical writing and humane reappearance of Tibetan tribal life,which implies a grand narrative of the transformation of modern nation-state.The intervention of external forces,such as poppies,not only promoted the temporary prosperity of kangba Tibetan areas,but also stirred the endless desire of the chieftains,thus shaking the economic foundation on which the chieftain system is based.The rapid intervention and political transformation of the revolutionary and democratic forces have realized the leap-forward modernization transformation of the traditional Tibetan areas,while their single and homogeneous modern thinking has led to the rupture and loss of the traditional Tibetan civilization and brought spiritual trauma to traditional Tibetan people.A Lai reflects on modernization in a poetic way,showing his historical philosophy,human nature inquiry,humanitarian care and multicultural imagination,which has important reference significance for the cultural transformation of the current society.