何以为家:新国家与旧礼制和解中的民族复兴

What Makes Home:National Rejuvenation in the Reconciliation between the New State and Old Rites

辛亥革命后,各类塑造独立民族国家的话语体系此消彼长。新的主权国家如何跳出“中体西用”的纸上谈兵,并建立有效的模仿机制和实用的文化体系,以重塑中华民族的国家气象与文明血脉,是摆在时人面前的急题。进而,民族主义在政治、知识、社会各界被全方位推广,最终既是意料之外又似情理之中地拉来礼制改革的诱饵,培植出传统中求发展、新学中涤文脉的时代品格。改造礼制与重造国民的民族主义式结合赋予民国礼制现代化内涵,并在知识精英的铺垫下、政治权力的推行下和农村社会的疏离中逐渐落下帷幕,而民族复兴的探索之路仍将在曲折中前进。

After the Revolution of 1911,various discourse systems of shaping independent nation-states emerged one after another.How to break out of the armchair concept of"Chinese learning as substance and western learning as function"and establish an effective imitation mechanism and practical cultural system to reshape the national spirit and cultural core of the Chinese nation was an urgent issue facing the people.In turn,nationalism was promoted in all aspects of politics,knowledge and society,which eventually attracted the bait of etiquette reform in an unexpected and reasonable way,and cultivated the character of the era that sought development in tradition and pursed culture in new learning.The nationalistic combination of reforming the ritual system and reconstructing the people endowed the ritual system of the Republic of China with modern connotation,and gradually came to an end after the intellectual elite’s way-paving,the promotion of political power and the alienation of rural society,but the road of national rejuvenation was still long.