景颇族创世史诗《目瑙斋瓦》与仪式实践

The Creation Epic Mu Nao Zhai Wa of Jingpo Ethnic Group and Its Ritual Practice

景颇族《目瑙斋瓦》是至今仍在口头流传的创世史诗,它由景颇族“斋瓦”在特定的场合——目瑙纵歌上进行吟诵。《目瑙斋瓦》包含着大量的神话文本,涉及宇宙起源、人类起源、民族起源、文化起源等神话。《目瑙斋瓦》文本与目瑙纵歌仪式相生相长、互相建构,营造了神圣性的演述场域。族群置身于目瑙纵歌这个神圣性的演述场域中,创世史诗《目瑙斋瓦》发挥着构建民族认同,维系社会秩序,调节人际关系的作用。通过创世史诗的吟诵以及仪式的实践出入于历史与现实之境,连接起过去与现在之流并最终将族群日常生活整合入民族文化的历史进程中并不断绵延下去。

Mu Nao Zhai Wa of Jingpo ethnic group is a creation epic which is still in oral circulation. It is recited by Jingpo ethnic group’s "Zhaiwa" on a specific occasion-Munao vertical song. Mu Nao Zhai Wa contains a large number of mythological texts, involving the origin of the universe, human origin, ethnic origin, cultural origin and other myths. The text of Mu Nao Zhai Wa and Munao vertical song are mutually generated and mutually constructed, creating the performance field of sacredness. Ethnic groups are in the sacred performance field of Munao vertical song. The creation epic Mu Nao Zhai Wa plays a role in building ethnic identity, maintaining social order and regulating interpersonal relationship. Through the recitation of the creation epic and the practice of ritual,it goes out of the realm of history and reality, connects the current of the past and the present, and finally integrates the daily life of ethnic groups into the historical process of ethnic culture and continues.