中国原型叙事概览

The Survey of Chinese Archetypal Narrative

原型意象是中国叙事取之不尽的重要素材,比如神话、英雄、图腾、巫术仪式等原型在人们的叙事中展现出奇幻的想象色彩,反映出原始先民对世界的朴素思考。与此同时,透过这些原型叙事,可以体察到他们独特的类比、象征以及置换变形的思维方式,从而理解原型叙事中变与不变之间和谐运转的叙事逻辑。通过对原型叙事特征的总结,挖掘出中国原型叙事的独特之处,并把握其对当代生活的价值。

Archetypal imagery is an inexhaustible source of material for Chinese narrative,such as myths,heroes,totems,witchcraft rituals,and other archetypes,which show fantastic imagination colors and reflect the primitive ancestors’simple thinking about the world in people’s narratives.At the same time,through these archetypal narratives,we can perceive their unique analogical thinking,symbolic thinking and the thinking of displacement and deformation,so as to understand the narrative logic of the harmonious operation between change and invariance in archetypal narratives.By summarizing the characteristics of the archetypal narratives,we can find out the uniqueness of Chinese archetypal narratives and grasp their value to contemporary life.