宗教仪式·人物谱系·文艺形态——目连孝行故事在地化传播的三大表现

Religious Ceremony, Character Pedigree, Literary Form:Three Manifestations of Stories of Mulian’s Filial Piety in Localized Communication

目连孝行故事是中国古代佛教文学最常见的题材之一。若从在地化传播视角分析,其突出表现有三:一者宗教仪式方面,与之有密切关系的盂兰盆会、中元节,是从并行不悖到混融互用;二者人物谱系方面,是从单一家庭结构到家族的扩大化;三者文艺形态方面,是从宗教讲唱到戏艺展演。

Stories of Mulian’s Filial Piety in one of the most popular topics in ancient Chinese Buddhist literature.Analyzed from the perspective of geochemical communication, the storieshas three manifestations: firstly, in terms of religious ceremony, they startedas parallel evolution and ended asintegration and mutual drawing with such closely related festivals as Obon Festivaland Hungry Ghost Festival;secondly, in terms of character pedigree, they show the enlarging tendency from a single family to family clan;thirdly, in terms of literary form, they include such forms as religioussinging and artistic performance.