“姜嫄生后稷”中的“缺失”——从《诗经·大雅·生民》读解周民族的思想特性

The"Privation" in"The Birth of Hou Ji Given by Jiang Yuan":Reading the Thinking Features of Zhou Nationality from The First Birth of The Book of Poetry

《诗经·大雅·生民》讲述了周族祖先后稷的出生与业绩,其中隐含着某种迄今还未被人关注的奇特之处。通过揭示这种独特之处,并将它与其他的创始人传说,特别是古希腊神话和《新旧约全书》中的创始人传说进行对比,才得以显示周文化以及直接源自周文化的儒家、道家的独特的思想倾向。"缺失"在这里主要指"对象"的缺失,而不意味着意义与神性的缺乏。

'The First Birth' in the 'Major Odes' of The Book of Poetry is a song of narrating the birth and achievement of the first ancestor (Hou Ji) of Zhou nationality. In it something extraordinary is hidden, which has not been noticed yet. This paper tries to lay bare of it and compare it with the characters of the 'ancestors' occurring in other literatures, especially in the ancient Greek myths and The Old and New Testaments, so that the unique thinking features of Zhou nationality as well as that of Confucianism and Daoism are disclosed. 'Privation' in this paper means primarily that of 'objects' rather than of 'meaning' and 'the divine'.