Recognizing “heaven” as humankind themselves——A Brief Analysis of The Golden Wings revealing the substructure and advancement of Chinese people's life-passage
将“上苍”理解为人类本身——试谈《金翼》揭示中国人的生命根底与行进

摘要

林耀华所著《金翼》以半自传式叙事，描述了中国传统地方社会黄、张两家的命运起落。体会《金翼》中“将‘上苍’理解为人类本身”这句话，即中国人的命运轨迹既根由于与生被赋予的社会既定和变迁，同时又包含后天的自主抉择。启发我们认识本书所揭示的群体视阈下中国人由传统家庭本位的乡土社会结构、人际交往网络、土地的给养与粘结、由祖先神明崇拜生发的仪礼信仰、家庭、家族主义文化构成的生命根底；及个体视阈下基于社会政治经济变迁致使“非均衡”，适应调整进而实现“再均衡”和生命行进。

Abstract

The Golden Wings written by Lin Yaohua is a semi-autobiographical narrative recounting the wax and wane of the Huang and Zhang clan in traditional Chinese indigenous society. Experience, in The Golden Wings, the expression "Recognizing 'heaven’ as humankind themselves", whose connotation is the destiny of the Chinese people is not only predetermined by the endowed social nature, but by acquired autonomous nurture”. Thatignited us to comprehend, as revealed in this book, under the group outlook, the traditional Chinese family-based rural social structure, gregarious communication network, estate sustenance and maintenance, ritual beliefs arising from the worship of ancestral deities, also including, the foundation of life constituted by family custom and clan culture, under the perspective of individuals, grounded on socio-political and economic vicissitudes, resulting in “unequilibrium”. So that we can adapt and adjust to achieve equipoise and progress anew.