文化资源、文化谱系与中华民族共同体建构——以祖源传说为中心的考察

Cultural Resources,Cultural Genealogy and the Construction of Community for the Chinese Nation:A Study Centered on the Ancestral Source Legend

祖源传说作为一种特殊的文化资源,在中华民族共同体建构的历史过程中有着难以替代的功能和价值,在铸牢中华民族共同体意识的文化实践中,充分发掘、运用这一文化资源的潜力,既是中华民族传统文化传承与保护的基本要义,也是推进相关社会文化建设的应有之义。采用历史人类学的视角对各民族祖源传说进行考察,可以看到祖源表述作为一种出自主位视角的集体记忆,可将文化持有者群体紧密地团结、凝聚在一起,起到其他文化元素难以发挥的凝聚功能;中华民族共同体的建构,正是依托于对多元文化资源的合理阐释与谱系书写。作为文化表征的祖源传说及其总体格局,彰显与揭示的正是中华民族共同体建构的社会历史本相。

Ancestral source legend,as a special cultural resource,has an irreplaceable functions and values in the historical process of the construction of community for the Chinese nation.And in the cultural practice of fostering a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation,to fully explore and apply the potential of this cultural resource is not only the basic meaning of the inheritance and protection of the traditional culture for the Chinese nation,but also the proper meaning of promoting the construction of the relevant social culture.Adopting the perspective of historical anthropology to examine the ancestral source legend of various ethnic groups,it can be seen that the expression of ancestral source,as a kind of collective memory of its autonomous bit perspective,can unite and cohere the group of culture holders closely together,and play a cohesive function that is difficult to be played by other cultural elements.The construction of community for the Chinese nation is precisely relies on the rational interpretation and genealogical writing of diversified cultural resources.The ancestral legend,as cultural symbols,and their overall pattern manifest and reveal the social and historical nature of the construction of community for the Chinese nation.