当“字文化”遇到“关键词”——中国文化关键词研究的通与变

“Chinese Character Culture”Meeting“Key Words”:Inheritance and Change of the Key Words Research in Chinese Culture

当“字文化”遇到“关键词”,以方块字为载体的中国文化关键词研究,可结合汉字与汉语的全息性、生命化特质,分析符号、初文与偏旁部首之中的文化思维,追溯汉字仰观俯察、远近取譬、会意指事、形声并茂构筑中华文化意义世界的历史进程。在文明互鉴的意义上,武汉大学李建中教授主编的一字一书的《中华字文化大系》丛书可与英国劳特里奇出版社的《批评新成语》书系彼此呼应,既借鉴文化关键词研究法,又留意区分汉字(意音和语素文字)有异于英文(表音和音素文字)之处,通过“望今制奇,参古定法”,开辟出中国文化关键词研究的通变范式。

When“Chinese character culture”meets“key words”,with the Chinese characters as the carrier of Chinese culture,keywords research can be combined with Chinese characters and the holography and life characteristics of Chinese language to analyze cultural thinking in symbol,initial text etc.to retrospect the historical process of building a world of Chinese cultural significance by looking up and down on objects,taking analogy from far and near,knowing and self-explanatory,including characters of pattern and sounds.In the sense of mutual learning of civilizations,the Series of Chinese Character Culture compiled by Professor Li Jianzhong of Wuhan University and the New Idioms of Criticism published by Routledge Press of the United Kingdom can echo each other.They not only draw lessons from the research method of cultural keywords,but also pay attention to distinguishing the differences between Chinese characters(ideographs and morpheme characters)and English characters(phonographs and phoneme characters).Through“applying the current situation to create miracles,and referring to the ancient to determine the method”,they have opened up an inheriting-changing paradigm for the study of Chinese cultural keywords.