从“动物报恩”故事看我国民间非人类中心观念

Analysis on Chinese Folk Non-Anthropocentric Ideas from the Stories of"Animals Repaying Obligation"

我国民众通过“动物报恩”之类的故事传达他们对人与自然关系的认识,表达动物与人是同样的“存在者”的观点,表现出非人类中心主义思想。物活论与万物有灵观、道家与道教思想、佛教观念是我国民间社会非人类中心观念产生的源泉。面对人与自然关系的重建,学界的众声喧哗中几乎都是西方话语。在这种背景下,发掘我国民间的非人类中心观念并追根溯源寻求其思想源泉,对于弘扬中华民族优秀传统文化,增强民族文化自信,具有积极意义。

Chinese people convey their understanding of the relationship between human and nature through stories of"animals repayin gobligation",expressing the view that animals and human beings are the same"beings",which manifests non-anthropocentrism.Theories of animism,Taoism and Taoist thoughts,and the Buddhist philosophy are the sources of non-anthropocentric ideas in China’s civil society.In the face of the reconstruction of the relationship between man and nature,almost all the voices in academic circles are from the western world.In this context,,it is of positive significance to explore the non-anthropocentric concept in Chinese civil society and trace back to and seek for its ideological source in order to carry forward the excellent Chinese traditional culture and enhance the national cultural confidence.