“俗人所欲”的实践民俗学推论

Practical Folkloristic Deductions about"What the Common People Desire"

东汉经学家、训诂学家刘熙在《释名》中说:“俗,欲也,俗人所欲也。”从民俗作为“俗人所欲”的根本属性及其哲学还原重新出发,构成实践民俗学方法论从认识转向实践的一个关键步骤。也就是说,提出实践民俗学的原因以及实践民俗学为何写、写什么、为谁写,以及谁在写等基本方法论问题,都可以从“俗人所欲”的本相和本原中推论出来。

Liu Xi,a scholar of the Eastern Han Dynasty,said in the Shi Ming,"Custom is desires,namely what the common people desire."Starting from the fundamental attribute of folklore as"what the common people desire"',a key step is constituted in the methodological shift of practical folkloristics from knowledge to practice.In other words,the basic methodological questions such as the reasons for proposing practical folkloristics and why,what,for whom,and who is writing about folklore,can be deduced from the nature and origin of"what the common people desire".