先秦诗文中的馈赠行为探微

On the Gift Behavior in Pre-Qin Poetry and Prose

先秦诗文中有大量叙写馈赠行为及相关举动和观念的文字,它们内蕴深厚,是作品整体脉络结构中的重要环节。先秦诗文对馈赠行为的叙写,反映了此时期馈赠行为的特点,即对馈赠之物精神价值的看重,以道义、情愫、言辞等非物质财富为馈人之礼,投桃报李、有来有往的回馈意识,在礼物赠受上对礼节性、原则性的奉守,等等。先秦诗文中的馈赠行为所表现出的种种特别之处,与当时看重礼仪、道德、精神品格的社会文化心理和某些宗教信仰观念有着特定的联系。

There are a large number of words in pre-Qin poems and articles describing gift behavior and related actions and concepts.They have profound implications,and they are the important links in the overall context of the works.The description of gift behavior reflects the characteristics of gift behaviors in the pre-Qin period:the emphasis on spiritual value of gift,the gift of non-material wealth such as morality,sentiment and speech,the adherence to etiquette and principle in gift presentation and acceptance and so on.The peculiarities of gift behavior in the pre-Qin poems and articles are related to the social and cultural psychology which valued etiquette,morality and spiritual character.They are also related to some religious beliefs at that time.