神话叙事观照下乡村振兴与农业生产的谱系重构

The Pedigree Reconstruction of Rural Revitalization andAgricultural Production Under the Perspective of Mythological Narration

神话叙事是中国人民伟大梦想的载体,在当下具有重要的现实传承价值。当代神话研究取得了重要成就,其面向当下已蔚然成风,神话面向乡村振兴也多有论述。中华神话发生在农业社会的土壤里,中华创世大神多是农神,相关农业社会的创造都是神话叙事,神话是农业生产的文化主导者和重要的农业文化遗产。新时期神话重述与乡村振兴关联,有成功的案例,比如,九华立春祭的春神祭祀,展现了神话仪式在农业生产中的独特地位。在中国历代农业典籍与实践中,农业相关神灵的祭祀与农业生产浑然一体。结合古代记载与现代神话仪式实践,我们发现,对于农业生产体系的片面理解,剥离了中国农业的文化本体性,单纯的物质生产性的认知,使得乡村农业失去了承载中华文明传承的功能。因此,重建农业的产业谱系,将神话叙事嵌入农业生产过程中,将祈报作为农业生产的灵魂所在,将“加强重要农业文化遗产保护利用”方针落到实处,是现代农业转型发展和乡村振兴的契机。

Mythological narration is the carrier of the great dreams of the Chinese people,and therefore has important practical inheritance value at present.Significant achievements have been made in contemporary mythological research,which has become a common trend in the current era.There are also many discussions on the direction of mythology towards rural revitalization.Chinese mythology takes place in the soil of an agricultural society.Chinese creation gods are mostly gods of agriculture,and the creation of related agricultural society is mythological narrative.Mythology is the cultural dominant force in agricultural production and an important agricultural cultural heritage.The successful cases of myth restatement related to rural revitalization in the new period,such as the Spring God Sacrifice in Jiuhua,show the unique status of myth ritual in agricultural production.In ancient Chinese agricultural classics and practices,the worship of agricultural related deities is seamlessly integrated with agricultural production.Combining ancient records with modern mythological ritual practices,we have found that the one-sided understanding of the agricultural production system has stripped away the cultural essence of Chinese agriculture,and the simple understanding of material production has made rural agriculture lose its function of carrying the inheritance of Chinese civilization.Therefore,rebuilding the industrial pedigree of agriculture,embedding mythological narratives into the agricultural production process,taking prayer as the soul of agricultural production,and implementing the policy of“strengthening the protection and utilization of important agricultural cultural heritage”are opportunities for modern agricultural transformation to develop rural revitalization.