珥蛇与珥玉：玉耳饰起源的神话背景——四重证据法的玉文化发生研究

穿耳和耳饰的起源,具有人类的普遍性。耳饰起源与史前期的人体神话观有密切联系。其特点是将头和耳视为通神或神圣的部位,并在耳与心之间建立神秘联系。以玉器为耳饰,是史前中国和东亚特有的文化现象,探究玉文化起源的奥秘,需要还原性地认识史前东亚的玉石神话观与人体神话观互动与结合的特殊情况。文章通过对珥玉礼俗与珥蛇神话的相关性探索,运用四重证据法,为玉文化发生研究提供神话学的理论解释。

Ershe and Eryu：The Background of the Origins of Jade Earrings --A Study on the Birth of Jade Culture from the Perspective of the Fourfold-Evidence Method

Human beings are in common in the origins of the earlobe-piercing and the earrings.The earrings bear a close relation to the view of human body mythology during prehistoric period.It was featured by regarding the head and the ear as the common deity and the holy organs,and establishing the mysterious relation between the ear and the heart.Using jade wares as the earrings was a unique phenomenon of prehistoric China and East Asia.It needs to restore the special circumstances of the interaction and combination of the prehistoric Asian jade mythology and human body mythology.Through the pertinent exploration of the Eryu(earrings made of jade) rites and Ershe(snakelike braid) mythology,this article,by using the method of the four-fold evidence,provides the theoretical explanations of the mythology for the study on the birth of the jade culture.