从乡土中国到中华民族共同体意识——迈向一种文化转型视角的差异性共在

The Earthbound China and the Sense of Community for the Chinese Nation——Coexistence in Differences from the Perspective of Cultural Transformation

对于中国自身的发展与改变,可以基于一种内外关系的结构性改变而做一种细致的考察。这种改变有着其自身的内力和外部压力之间交互作用的影响。内力的作用来自于作为原点参照的乡土中国长期模式的存在,在其背后有着一种文化理解意义上的根基于土地束缚的存在,但这种束缚却并非一种所谓超稳定结构的存在,而是有着其自身自我适应性的结构性调整,通过迫不得已离开土地的选择而实现生计依赖上的自我转变和适应。这里会真实面对一种乡土中国其自身所固有的封闭与开放的循环,并通过多元一体的动态模式实现其自身多样性和一体性之间的平衡。由现代性冲击所带来的中国转变,要求在现代民族国家之上从一种创造性转化的意义中去构建追求一体性存在的中华民族共同体意识,这便要求一种基于文化转型的策略性应对,这同时也将是文化、艺术以及遗产之类的存在向度重新回归于大众社会实际生活中的一种自我转向。

China’s development and change can be scrutinized through a structural change of internal and external relations,which is influenced by the interaction between the internal forces and external pressures.The internal forces come from the existence of a longstanding pattern of earthbound China as a reference,behind which there exists from the cultural understanding a bondage deeply rooted in land.However,the bondage is not a stable structure,but rather a structural adjustment with its own self-adaptation,an adaptation that is achieved through the livelihood dependance and the unwilling choice to leave the land.Here,we face an inherent cycle of closure and openness in rural China,and the balance between its diversity and unity is achieved through a dynamic pattern of the unity in diversity.The transformation of China brought about by the impact of modernity calls for the building of a sense of community for the Chinese nation that pursues the existence of unity in the sense of a creative transformation on top of the modern state.It requires a strategic response based on cultural transformation,which would also be a self-turning that brought back into the real life of mass society the existence of culture,art and heritage.