民族交融视域下的清代广南祈雨文化初探

A Preliminary Study of the Rain-praying Culture of Guangnan in the Qing Dynasty under the Perspective of Ethnic Integration

祈雨是一种传统文化行为,中国各民族大多有其独特的祈雨文化。不同民族祈雨文化的交融是民族文化交融的生动案例。清代,地处中越边界的云南广南地区,随着国家统治的不断加强,出现了以汉文化为主体的中原文化与当地少数民族文化进一步交融的趋势。从祈雨文化交融的层面来看,主要表现在两个方面:一是中原祈雨文化通过官员的一系列活动在广南不断深入传播,二是广南当地原有的祭龙树祈雨习俗以及与祈雨有关的民间故事,不断吸收中原的祈雨文化因素。最终,形成广南当地的祈雨文化与源自中原的祈雨文化交融与并存的局面。

Praying for rain is a traditional cultural behavior,and most of the ethnic cultures in China have a unique culture of praying for rain.The intermingling of different ethnic rain-praying cultures is a vivid case of ethnic cultural intermingling.During Qing Dynasty,Han culture and the local minority cultures had further integrated in Yunnan Guangnan region,located in the Sino-Vietnamese border,with the continuous strengthening of imperial governance.From the level of praying for rain culture,cultural integration was mainly manifested in two aspects.The first aspect is the culture of praying for rain in the Central Plains spreads widely in Guangnan with official rain-praying events and construction of Dragon God Temple.The second aspect is the original local custom of dragon trees worship and the folk stories related to rain-praying were also passed down in the process.Eventually,the local culture of praying for rain in Guangnan and the rain-praying culture that originated in the Central Plains became intertwined and coexisted in this area.