神话视域下中华民族共同体意识的形成与发展--以盘瓠神话的畲族叙述为例

Formation and Development of the Consciousness of the Chinese Community in the Perspective of Mythology:A Study of the Narrative of Panhu Myth by the She Nationality

神话与民族共同体的起源和发展有着密切关系。透过盘瓠神话的畲族叙述,可以窥探中华民族共同体意识形成的历史脉络与文化逻辑:盘瓠神话的出现是古代中国“大一统”思想实践的文化成果,蕴含着“华夏共祖”的中华民族共同体记忆。各民族在叙述盘瓠神话时形成不同的文本,既投射出本民族的文化心理,也构筑了中华民族共同体意识的文化根基。而神话得以延续的动力正是源于各民族对神话蕴藏的精神进行的自我解构与合理实践,这一过程实质上就包含着对中华民族共同体意识的历史构建,最终促成中华民族共同体从“自在”到“自觉”的历史转化。

Myth is closely related to the origin and development of a national community.The narrative of Panhu myth by the She nationality reveals the historical context and cultural logic of the formation of the consciousness of the Chinese community:the emergence of Panhu myth is the cultural achievements of the ideological practice of“great unification”in ancient China,which contains the memory of the Chinese community about the“common ancestor of the Chinese nation”.Different nationalities have formed different texts for narrating Panhu myth,which has projected the cultural psychology of a given nationality,and also helped construct the cultural foundation of the consciousness of the Chinese community.What keeps the myth alive is the self-deconstruction and rational practice of the spirit contained in different kinds of myth by different nationalities.This process in essence includes the historical construction of the consciousness of the Chinese community,and finally contributes to the historical transformation of the Chinese community from“self-existence”to“consciousness”.