祖先记忆的再创作:一个运河沿线丝业市镇家族的故事

The Re-creation of Ancestral Memory: A Family Story from a Silk Market Town along the Canal

明中叶以后,丝织业技术由苏州府城沿京杭大运河渐次传播到江南的普通市镇,部分城居"庶民"地主在积极从事工商业的同时,也陷入繁重的"役困"当中。为了摆脱"役困",通过特殊渠道获取优免差徭的特权,不惜更改祖先记忆,以获取更大的现实利益。黄溪史氏利用旌表建文忠臣这一重要文化资源,通过制造和传播《致身录》,将先祖"史彬"从一介粮长包装成建文朝臣,并以死勤事为由,将之成功供奉于嘉兴府和苏州府的乡贤祠,从而彻底走出长期阻碍该族持续发展的困境。

The silk weaving technology spread gradually from Suzhou Prefecture to other Southern China towns along the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal after the mid-Ming dynasty.Although some subaltern city-living landlords actively engaged in industry and commerce,they still fell into heavy"corvee troubles".In order to break away from the situation,they chose some special ways,in which they changed their ancestral memory without hesitation.For example,the Huangxi Shi Family fully used the advantage of honoring Jianwen loyal officials,an important cultural resource,to create and propagate Zhishen Records.Through this,Shi Bin,their ancestor,who was a Liangzhang,"became"a court official,and died for his loyalty to Jianwen emperor.He was successfully adored in the village shrines to the local worthies of Jiaxing and Suzhou,and then the Shi-family got out of the dilemma that had hindered the sustainable development of the family for a long time.