基于象隐喻的五行学说及其在中医理论体系中的建构作用

Xiang-Metaphor Based Wuxing Theory,and its Constructive Role in the Theoretical System of Traditional Chinese Medicine

以象隐喻认知理论框架对五行学说范畴体系的发生学进行研究,认为象隐喻是五行学说发生的主要认知机制,五行学说是一种理论建构性隐喻体系。在此基础上提出一个有关文化发展的假设:一种文化的发生,乃基于一种理论建构性隐喻,这种隐喻直接参与初始概念的构成或直接转换为这种文化的初始概念,在此初始概念下形成一系列基本命题。这种隐喻所参与的初始概念的构成,使得这种文化的各个角落都充满这种隐喻的气息。通过对中医理论、佛经、《圣经》等不同文化经典的语料分析并结合他人的研究成果,分析论证上述假设存在的合理性。

We have studied the genesis of the category system of the Wuxing Theory within the framework of the cognitive theory of Xiang-metaphor. It is concluded that Xiang-metaphor is the main cognitive mechanism of the Wuxing Theory and the Wuxing Theory is a theoretical constructive metaphor system. On this basis,a hypothesis about the development of culture is put forward,i. e. the occurrence of a culture is based on a theoretical constructive metaphor,which directly participates in the formation of the initial concept or directly converts into the initial concept of this culture,under which a series of basic propositions are formed. Originating from this metaphor,it participates in the formation of the original concepts,making every corner of this culture full of this kind of metaphor. Through the corpus analysis of traditional Chinese medicine,Buddhist scriptures,Bible and other cultural classics,and combined with other people’s research results,we analyze and demonstrate the rationality of the hypothesis.