“草生人”神话与日本国家的诞生

The Mythology of the"Grass Born People"and the Origin of the Japanese

“草生人”,指人从草中诞生,这是日本《古事记》《日本书纪》中独特的人类起源神话。最初的人类、诸神、国土都“由草而生”,这是日本原始神话;在神的意志下“二次诞生”的新人类成为了日本国民,为天照大御神统治苇原中国、天皇统治日本建构了合理性,这是“原始神话变异体”。中国典籍中的“苍生”进入日本官方史书,意味着中国文化在日本最初的国家意识形态建构中起到了举足轻重的作用。在日本国家建立的初期,通过“记纪神话”统一国家思想,与建立律令制国家的努力同等重要,而奈良朝廷为了建立独立国家所全面效法的正是中国。

"Grass Born People"refers to people born out of grass,which is a unique myth of human origin in Japan's"Kojiki"and"Nihon Shoki"The original human beings,Gods,and territory were all:"born of grass"which is a primitive Japanese myth;TheNew Human Beings"who were:Reborn"by the will of Gods became Japanese citizens,constructing the rationality for Amaterasu's rule over"Ashihara No Akatsukuni"and The Mikado's rule over Japan,which is aVariation of the primitive Japanese myth."Furthermore,the allusion of Cang Sheng"in Chinese classics widely spread in Japanese official history books,which implicates that Chinese culture played a crucial role in the construction of Japan's initial national ideology.In the preliminary stage of the establishment of the Japanese nation,the unification of state ideology through:The Myth of JiJi'was as important as the efforts to establish a legal state,and it was China that the Nara Court fully followed to establish an independent state.