“大荒”意象的文化分析——《山海经·荒经》的观念背景

《山海经·荒经》为中国文学中“荒远怪异”意象和“荒诞无稽”观念提供了“政治地理”的原型。时间的“古”和空间的“远”是对“荒”的想象之条件。在儒家正统意识控制下 ,文化代码系统专用“荒”、“怪”、“异”之类象征边缘性和异端性的语汇来为“王化之外”的空间和事物命名。而与“中心”和秩序相对立的“荒”的理念也为一切反叛和挑战正统价值的言论找到立足点。贾宝玉来自“大荒山” ,庄子、曹雪芹等标举“荒唐言” ,皆为其例。

Image of Wilderness in \%Shan Hai Ching: \%A Cultural Analysis

This paper aims at explaining the image and concept of wilderness in traditional Chinese culture by tracing the archetype in the classic of \%Shan Hai Ching\%, and by making comparison between the concepts of wilderness and nonsense. The roots of these concepts are buried in the ancient imagination of political geography, which was dominated by the ideology based on Confucius School. Both the image of wilderness and the concept of nonsense serve as the tools of anti-centering and challenging orthodox ideas in Chinese literary imagination.