时空视域下缅甸华人族群的文化记忆

On the Cultural Memory of the Chinese Community in Myanmar from the Perspective of Time and Space

生活在缅甸的华人以省籍进行区分,主要分为福建籍华人、广东籍华人、云南籍华人与新移民等。华人族群建构的寺庙信仰空间作为文化记忆的载体,将对祖籍国的记忆空间化,并且赋予空间中民间信仰以文化传播符号的意义。缅甸华人寺庙除了具有重要的社会功能外,还成为华人建构的“想象中的故乡”。华人在祖籍国相关的节日仪式的重复中建构文化记忆并且传播中华文化,祖籍国的节日时间也是对在异国生存艰辛的“故土之情”的时间疗愈。华人移民将祖籍国无数神灵带到东南亚,在缅甸建构出中国民间信仰为主体的神圣空间,成为中华文化在缅甸多元文化中的表征。故土神明存在的寺庙空间加强了华人族群心灵与故土的联系。

Chinese people who lives in Myanmar come from different Chinese provinces,including Fujian,Guangdong,Yunnan,etc..As the medium of cultural memory,temples constructed by the Chinese ethnic groups turned their memory of ancestral country into reality space,in which the folk beliefs were given the meaning of cultural transmission symbols.In addition to their important social functions,Chinese temples in Myanmar have also become imaginary hometowns for local Chinese communities.Through the repetition of festival ceremonies related to their ancestral homeland,these Chinese people construct cultural memory and disseminate Chinese culture.The festival time,which derived from the culture of their ancestral home country,provided a time for healing their daily hardships of living in a foreign country.Based on Chinese folk beliefs,Chinese immigrants brought countless gods to Southeast Asia from their ancestral countries,and has constructed sacred spaces in Myanmar,which have become the representation of Chinese culture in Myanmar’s diverse culture.The spatial presence of the homeland gods strengthens the connection between Chinese people’s hearts and their homeland.