龙于经传皆有云:《说文解字》龙部字文化特质孔见

Explanation of Cultural Characteristics of Chinese Characters with Long(龙)-radical in Shuowenjiezi

龙乃远古传说中的动物,历经上万年的推阐演绎,最终成为独具民族特色的重要文化现象。《说文解字》保存史前以来中华先民仰观俯察、穷究天人的珍贵历史信息,故以龙部字为考察目标剖析其文化特质,研究结果证实:蛮荒时代受中原农耕文化影响,龙作为鳄类动物首先以祈雨解厄之巫术面目出现;随着民族融合,在封建“大一统”的历史驱动下,龙因身份尊贵、兼容并包诸多优势成为帝王贵胄之标志性符号;封建帝制退出中国历史舞台后,龙在中华民族共同体意识砥淬重铸下跃升为国民的身份象征。《说文解字》龙部字忠实见证龙在兽性、神性、人性之间的语码转换,龙文化承载着中华民族海纳百川、乘风破浪、龙马精神的辉煌史诗。

The Loong is a legendary creature in Chinese culture.After thousands of years of interpretation and deduction by the Chinese people,it is finally condensed into an important cultural phenomenon with unique national characteristics.Shuowenjiezi preserves the precious historical information of the Chinese ancestors.Therefore,this paper takes Chinese characters with Long(龙)-radical in Shuowenjiezi as the research object to explain its cultural characteristics.The results confirm that the Loong,as an alligator,first appeared as a sorcery praying for rain under the influence of the farming culture of Central Plains in the wild times,that the Loong became a symbol of emperors and nobles because of many advantages such as noble status and compatibility with the national mergence,and that the Loong has risen to the status symbol of all the people under the community consciousness of the Chinese nation after the feudal monarchy stepped down from the stage of history.Chinese characters with Long(龙)-radical in Shuowenjiezi witness the code-switching among the animal nature,the divine nature and the human nature of the Loong,and the Loong culture carries the glorious epic of being tolerant to diversity,braving the wind and waves and the vigorous spirit of Chinese nation.