论传统祭祀铸牢中华民族共同体意识的机制

ON THE MECHANISM OF TRADITIONAL SACRIFICIAL RITES FORGING A STRONG SENSE OF COMMUNITY FOR THE CHINESE NATION

传统祭祀是社会道德生活的整合器,是赋予社会成员公共意识、公共理性的重要途径。中国传统祭祀作为社会记忆贮存器,承载了许多原型要素、生命母题和价值隐喻,反映了中华民族独特的宇宙观、文化心理和精神支撑,蕴含着中华民族共同体意识的培育机制,并成为卓有成效的文化认同实践形式。祭祀的整合功能是传统国家建构自身的需要,中国传统祭祀是一种特殊的社会整合形式,它通过剧场政治语境下公共仪式空间的建构和持续重建,规范社会行为,培育中华民族共同体意识。

The traditional sacrificial rites is the integrator of social moral life and an important way to give social members public consciousness and public rationality.Traditional Chinese sacrifi⁃cial rites,as social memory reservoirs,carry many archetype elements,life motifs and value meta⁃phors,which reflect the unique cosmology,cultural psychology and spiritual support of the Chinese nation,contain the cultivation mechanism of a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation,and become a fruitful practical form of cultural identity.The integrated function of sacrificial rites is the need of the traditional state to construct itself.Chinese traditional sacrificial ritesare a spe⁃cial form of social integration.It regulates social behaviorsand cultivates a strong sense of communi⁃ty for the Chinese nation through the construction and continuous reconstruction of public ritual spaces in the political context of theater.