Shanshui Homeland:Landscape Generation and Life World of Jizu Mountain in Yunnan Province
This paper explores the generation of landscape in Jizu Mountain,Yunnan Province from the perspective of cosmology,while referring to the latest theoretical progress in the Western landscape anthropology,i.e.,looking at landscape generation from the perspective of ontology,trying to go beyond the dichotomy of nature and culture and the approach of representationism,while paying more attention to the mutual cultivating process of landscape and human beings.Based on the Chronicles of Jizu Mountain and materials collected from field work,this paper presents the cosmology behind the landscape generation of Jizu Mountain from three aspects,such as the momentum of Shanshui(mountains and waters),homeland surrounded by Shanshui,and life and death view,and reflects the relevance of ideas between the intellectuals of Ming and Qing dynasties and ordinary villagers.In the view of this cosmology,Shanshui is not the object to be"viewed",but the existence of the endless creation of heaven and earth and the vibrant existence of the universe.Shanshui,homeland and life are organically intertwined with each other,with the homeland being incorporated into Shanshui and Shanshui also being embraced into homeland.Through the analysis of the villagers'perception on life and death,we can see that human life is woven into the texture of Shanshui.The intertwining and entanglement of life and Shanshui generates the sacred landscape of Jizu Mountain,known as the"Huashou Gate"."Huashou Gate"is an extremely important landscape in the ritual of praying for bearing children and the returning route for human souls afterlife.Human life is obtained from"beating the crown prince"in front of Huashou Gate,while the returning route of human souls flies from the foot of the mountain up to the top before entering into the other world through Huashou Gate.The Huashou Gate becomes the gateway of death and rebirth,nurturing life and serving as its ultimate destination.When the Western landscape anthropology has undergone the transformation from representationism to ontology,facing again the"temporality"of landscape and the process of mutual cultivation in between landscape and human being,China's Shanshui cosmology provided a theoretical dialogue for the discussion of landscape generation.China's Shanshui cosmology contains the understanding of the creation of heaven and earth.Heaven and earth,Shanshui,human being and everything in nature are all in a state of continuous growth and variation.Only through this way can we better understand our"humanistic habitat"in which we live,and pay more attention and reflection to the inherent meaning of"ecology"as a means of continuous variation.
NETL
NSTL
万方数据
