国家级体育非遗“肉连响”的身体文化释义

The Body Culture Interpretation of the National Sports Intangible Cultural Heritage"Rou Lianxiang"

基于对湖北利川地区“肉连响”的实地调查发现,从其起源、存续、形态变迁可窥见身体表演与当地的社会和文化发展的关系。土家族先民的身体活动孕育于自然,其身体观念的形成与劳动生产方式息息相关。在社会急剧变迁的过程中,传统文化生活也随之变迁,但是身体作为文化记忆的载体,铭刻着原始族群的记忆。通过其身体表演可以窥见,其历史记忆的书写、精神价值的传承、生活经验的表征以及身体作为能动的主体性的呈现。其内在价值在于“精神仪式”的现代化表达,以唤醒人们对自身生命健康的关注和对自然生态的体感与共鸣,以及对筑牢民族共同体意识的认同。

On a field investigation of the Rou Lianxiang in the Lichuan area of Hubei,we found that the relationship between physical performance and local social and cultural development can be seen from its origin,survival,and morphological changes.The physical activities of the ancestral Tujia people were nurtured by nature,and the formation of their physical concepts was closely related to the mode of labor and production.In the process of rapid social changes,traditional cultural life also changed,but the body is still inscribed as a carrier of cultural memory of the original community.Through its physical performance,we can see the writing of historical memory,the transmission of spiritual values,the representation of life experience and the presentation of the body as a dynamic subjectivity.Its intrinsic value lies in the modernized expression of"spiritual rituals"to awaken people's concern for their own life and health,their empathy and resonance with the natural ecology,and their recognition of building a sense of national community.