保生大帝与妈祖斗法传说故事的文化阐释

Cultural Interpretation of Legend of Conflict between Baosheng Emperor and Mazu

在闽台两地及华南地区流传的保生大帝吴夲与天后妈祖赌气斗法的传说故事与故事浓缩版的风信俗语,解释了中国东南、南部地区农历三月刮风下雨的自然现象的原因,建构了一个主位的文化秩序,使当地人的社会生活有序化。但另一方面这种主位的文化解释与建构也造成一点小小的矛盾与冲突,使得闽、台、粤的绝大多数地方的人们,不在一间宫庙中同龛祀奉保生大帝和天上圣母妈祖。

In Fujian and Taiwan as well as in South China,the legendary stories of Baosheng emperor Wu Tao and empress Mazu’s gambling and fighting with each other and the condensed version of the climate proverb explain the natural phenomenon of wind and rain in the lunar march in Southeast and southern China,and construct a thematic cultural order,which makes the social life of local people orderly.But the cultural interpretation and construction of theme,on the other hand,caused a little contradiction and conflict,which made the vast majority of people in Fujian,Taiwan and Guangdong not worship the Baosheng emperor and the goddess of heaven in the same niche in a temple.