论早期中国的“一元多支一体”格局

On the“Monistic Multiclade Integral”Pattern of Early China

早期中国大部地区共有“一元”的宇宙观、伦理观、历史观等核心思想观念和文化基因,存在“多支”文化系统和多种文明起源子模式,交融形成以黄河—长江—西辽河流域为主体的、以黄河中游(或中原地区)为中心的、多层次的“一体”文化格局。这种“一元多支一体”格局,本质上趋向“一体”“一统”而又包含多种发展变化的可能性,既长期延续主流传统又开放包容,是一种超稳定的巨文化结构,与此相适应的文明起源模式可称之为“天下文明”模式。

Most regions of the Early China shared similar“monistic”ideological foundations and cultural genes such as cosmology,ethics and view of history,while developing diverse local cultural systems branching from common origins and clade patterns of the origins of civilization.Different regions of the Early China blended to establish the multiple-tiered cultural pattern dominated by the regions along the Yellow River,the Yangtze,and Western Liao River,with the core locating at the middle Yellow River valley(or the Central Plains).This“Monistic multiclade integral”cultural pattern essentially is the route towards unity,but also encompasses the multiple possibility for different routes of evolution in different regions,which both perpetuated mainstem traditions and showed the openness and inclusiveness.It is an ultra-stable mega-cultural structure,corresponding to the special pattern on the origins of civilization,the pattern of“Tianxia Civilization”.