缅甸缅族和中国云南纳西族彝族月亮神话比较研究

A Comparative Study on the Moon Mythology of the Burmese Nationality in Myanmar and the Naxi and Yi Nationality in Yunnan, China

缅甸缅族和中国云南纳西族、彝族同属汉藏语系藏缅语族。缅族与纳西族、彝族的月亮神话从相似的故事情节上凸显出相似的族源文化和先民认知,同时又从神话构成的差异中体现出各具特色的民族思维和民风民俗。神话是先民们智慧的结晶,体现了先民对于自然现象的朴素认知与丰富想象,蕴含着深厚的历史文化与人文积淀。文章主要以缅甸缅族与中国云南纳西族和彝族的月亮神话进行比较,从共时性角度对比中缅月亮神话的异同,探索天马行空的神话故事中蕴含的民族思维与民族文化,从而进一步对比出中缅民族的思维差异与文化差异,促进两国人民的文化理解与文化交流。

The Burmese nationality in Myanmar and the Naxi and Yi nationality in Yunnan, China, both belong to the Tibetan-Burmese language family of Sino-Tibetan language. The moon myths of Burmese, Naxi and Yi nationalities highlight similar ethnic origin culture and ancestors’ cognition from similar storylines, and at the same time reflect their own characteristics of national thinking and folk customs from the differences in the composition of myths. Myth is the crystallization of the wisdom of the ancestors, which reflects the ancestors’ simple cognition and rich imagination of natural phenomena, and contains profound historical, cultural and humanistic accumulation. This article mainly compares the moon myths of the Burmese nationality in Myanmar and the Naxi and Yi nationality in Yunnan, China, compares the similarities and differences between the Chinese and Burmese moon myths from a synchronic perspective, and explores the national thinking and national culture contained in the wild fairy tales, so as to further compare the thinking and cultural differences between the Chinese and Burmese peoples, and promote cultural understanding and cultural exchanges between the two peoples.