试论中国神话中的隐喻认知

On metaphorical cognition in Chinese myths

神话在我们的生活中是一个耳熟能详的词汇,是我们对世界进行认知了解的一种方式,神话中的故事让我们体会到的是一种精神,一种先民生活方式的记录。中国神话作为中华民族早期智慧的结晶,不仅在语言上有着自己特点,在表达对世界的认知上也有着独特的方式,即隐喻思维模式,这是人类童年期各民族中普遍存在的思维方式。所有的神话在其生成和传播的作用机制中都是以隐喻式思维为基础和背景的,考察隐喻式思维可以为研究神话提供一个全新的视角,把神话尤其是中国的创世神话作为隐喻进行解读可以看到先民在对现实世界的成熟表达的同时,也附带了一种相对保守性的思维模式,这在我们的民族语言表达上体现得比较明显。

Myth in our lives is a very familiar vocabulary to us, it is a way for human to cognize this world, the story in myth is a kind of record of human ancestor’s lifestyle and spirit. As a crystallization of Chinese nation’s early wisdom, Chinese myth not only has its own characteristics in language, but also has a unique way in expression of cognizing the world, that is the metaphor thinking model, a ubiquitous thinking way in different nations of human childhood. All myths in their mechanism of action of the generation and propagation are based on metaphorical thinking, study on the metaphor thinking may provide us with a new perspective for our study on myth, interpreting the myths especially Chinese creation myths as metaphor we can see that it comes with a relatively conservative thinking mode when the ancestors expressed the real world maturely, which is relfected more obviously in Chinese language.