以《易》为焦点的中西文化源头论争与会通

On the Communication between Chinese and Western Cultures with the Yijing as the Focus

西方“索隐派”以“赫耳墨斯思想”为依据,以“三重伟大”作为沟通基督教和异教思想的突破口。他们对《易经》予以高度关注,试图建立伏羲等中国上古人物与《圣经》纪年的对应关系,并从《易经》中寻找上帝的启示,倡导“中学西源说”。“索隐派”的本意是调和中西文化的冲突与矛盾,却引起了中国士大夫的回击,“中学西源说”亦被中国士人转化为“西学中源说”和“中国文明独立起源说”。在双方论证“中学西源”或“西学中源”的过程中,《易经》均发挥了沟通中西学术的桥梁作用。

On the basis of Hermes’s thought,Western Figurists applied the“triple greatness”as the sally port to communicate Christianity and paganism.They attached great importance to the Yijing by which they tried to establish the correspondence between ancient Chinese figures like Fuxi and annals of the Bible,seek God’s revelation from the Yijing,and advocate that“Chinese culture originated from the West”.Their real intention was to mediate the conflicts and contradictions between Chinese and Western cultures,but their conclusion aroused counterattacks from Chinese literati and officialdom,who transformed the Figurists’view into that“Western culture originated from China”and“Chinese civilization had its independent origin”.However,in the course of their argumentation,the Yijing played the role of bridging Chinese and Western academia.