摘要
本文首先通过对原始舞蹈的人类学分析 ,提出了人类族群建构始于原始舞蹈的理论。然后 ,依据这一理论 ,并通过对“华”、“夏”两字的文字学和文献学考证 ,说明“华”、“夏”两字最初都是舞蹈之名 ,表示饰羽之舞 ,中华民族最初的名称“华夏”正是由此演变而来 ;饰羽之舞演变为华夏民族的图腾———凤凰 ;此种舞蹈的羽毛饰物则演变为华夏民族的图腾柱———华表 ,“华”
To begin with, this article makes an anthropological analysis of primitive dances, and puts forward the theory that the construction of human ethnic groups originated from the primitive dances. Then, according to such a theory, and through the philological and documentological studies of the two characters of “Hua” and “Xia”, this article demonstrates that the two characters were originally the names of dances with feathers as the dancers' adornments, “Hua-Xia”, the initial name of the Chinese Nation, is just evolved from the names of such a kind of dances; the dances with feathers as the dancers' adornments then evolved to phoenix, the totem of the Chinese Nation, while the feather adornments used in this kind of dances evolved to Huabiao, the totem of the Chinese Nation, the appearance of the earliest character of “Hua” symbolized the shape of a Huabiao.
出处
《民族研究》
CSSCI
北大核心
2000年第5期34-42,共9页
Ethno-National Studies
