摘要
中国上古洪水神话中女娲补天神话早于鲧禹治水神话,其所反映的社会内涵在于原始社会婚姻形态的变化———由群婚走向了对偶婚。女蜗表现出独特的阴阳兼具的神格,协调阴阳的功能。阴阳在女娲神话中被具体化为木石,不但可以之补天治水,亦可填海、置婚姻。而这种阴阳一体的观念对后世影响至大,也是中国社会以家庭而不是以个人为社会最小细胞的文化源头所在。
Among the mythology about floods in ancient China, the story of Nu Wa is earlier than the story of Gun and Yu. The social connotation of the story shows the change of marriage system in primitive society——from polygamy and polyandry to monogamy. The mythical image of Nu Wa is so special because she has the features of both male and female, who has the power to coordiante men and women. The male and female are embodied as wood and stone in the myth of Nu Wa, which can be used not only to repair the sky and control the water but also to fill the sea to provide land for marriage. And the concept of male and female in one body has great influence upon the later world and explains why the smallest social unit is family but not individual in China.
出处
《青海师范大学学报（哲学社会科学版）》
2004年第6期70-74,共5页
Journal of Qinghai Normal University(Philosophy and Social Sciences Edition)
关键词
洪水神话
女娲
阴阳一体
mythology about floods
Nu Wa
male and female in one body
