王国礼仪公共性的扩展——简论古代华夏族群的形成途径

古代华夏融合由夏商周三代王国政治推动完成,这一点已为学界公认。但华夏融合的具体途径是什么,仍有待深入研究。三代王国皆耗费大量物资建设象征权力的王国礼仪,王国礼仪为王族独占,但在长期发展中也形成某种公共性,即由各姓族集团贵族分享,可以在前后不同王族之间传递,由之而渐成跨越姓族藩篱的文化圈,此文化圈便是春秋“诸夏”认同的基础。古代华夏融合不同于现代民族认同,后者是社会全体成员参与的过程,前者主要是社会上层贵族参与的过程。

Expansion of Public Kingdom Rites——Ways for the formation of ancient Huaxia race

The merge of ancient Huaxia was promoted by the politics of Xia,Shang and Zhou Kingdoms,which has been commonly accepted.However,it is open to study as to the ways of merge.The three kingdoms spent huge materials developing rites as the symbol of power.The rites was firstly owned by the imperial kinsmen but became somewhat public in the long period of development,i.e.,shared by the noble of various clan and passed down different imperial kinsmen and thus became a cultural circle without the barrier of clan,which was the basis identified by the dukes in the period of Spring and Autumn.Merge of ancient Huaxia is different from the identification of modern nationalities,the former being the participation of upper class while the latter all social members.