Isomorphism Of "View" And "Concept":History,Pattern And Concept Of Personhood Of Hongyao Village In The North Of Guangxi

Taking Dazhai village,Longji Town,Hongyao village in northern Guangxi as a case,this paper focuses on the following core issues:First,based on the terrace"landscape" of Hongyao village,this paper distinguishes the meaning of "landscape"from the perspective of tourists(external)and local people(internal),and makes a clear definition from the perspective of anthropology.Second,how the Dazhai Hongyao people established human-land relations and produced corresponding social mechanisms and cultivated a specific spiritual temperament.Thirdly,under the penetration of modernity,how do the Dazhai people continue this set of social structure and conceptual system and face new people and tings.In order to achieve a holistic understanding and presentation of Dazhai Village and to answer the above-mentioned questions based on it,this paper focuses on these specific questions in a progressive manner:what habitat facts the Hongyao people first faced;What kind of consciousness do they hold to look at the mountains in which they live,and how do they combine with the ecological environment of this region and show the corresponding social facts and spiritual characteristics;Under the penetration of modernity,how can they continue the original value judgment and humanistic thinking of the society and face the new situation caused by the infiltration of economic rationality and market factors with ease?Through the description and exploration of the real daily life and the deeper meaning system of the local people,this paper finds that:First,the landscape in the one-way external perspective is only a visual understanding of a specific material collection.On the other hand,from the internal perspective,the landscape contains cultural constructs with specific cognitive schemas,"collective representations" with explicit social structures,and actions and practices driven by cultural schemas.Thus,in anthropology,landscape should not be limited to being a precise object of study,but rather an analytic concept for understanding phenomena in a perspectivist sense;in other words,landscape can be used as a method.Second the Dazhai Hongyao people,who live in the "Nanling Corridor," settled in the Longji area and formed an agricultural community with their own characteristics based on the fact that they were allied with the mountains.In this process,the Hongyao people tend to closely associate historical factors such as ethnic memory,migration legends and myths with their own settlement space and life facts,and construct an understanding of the meaning of life and the value of life.This is also the basic starting point for many of the Hongyao people’s conceptual systems.Further,through the means of natural and social symbols,the Dazhai people built up a cognitive system about the village pattern and a social mechanism to unite the collective.Among them,both symbolic systems derive from the local people’s basic notion of person.In the ritual of"Zuohuatang",the Hongyao people use metaphorical thinking to push their own connotation of personhood and their definition of the ideal personality deeper.These stable structures,with historical consciousness,social symbols and ideal personality as important elements,are the effective means for the Dazhai people to face modernity with ease.Thirdly,the practice and understanding of the relationship between people and land and the process of constructing a system of meanings and concepts by the Dazhai Hongyao people is also a series of cultural constructs in general.In Dazhai Village,this totality shows three aspects or three abstract conceptual systems of history,pattern and concept of personhood.At a deeper level,the overall cultural construction of the local people contains the process of defining and cognizing the local wholeness of the Hongyao people,that is,the process of integrating the overall experience and concepts from the view of things to the concept of people.In a nutshell,it means that"view" and "concept" are the same structure.The "view" is an experienced event,while the "concept" is an inner concept or mental structure and consciousness that mirrors the"view".Fourth,the facts of the Hongyao people’s experience from their daily life to their spiritual world clearly show that the interaction between people and material areas,people and society,and people and each other is the basic way of cultural construction.In other words,it is the interrelationship constituted between people and society,people and society,and peoplen and the material area that contributes to the Hongyao people’s holistic understanding and cognition of themselves and the world.This also constitutes a possibility for dialogue with Jean-Paul Sartre’s existentialist claim of the unique relationship between people and existence.In the specific discussion,the first chapter describes the fact that the Hongyao people are located in the "Nanling corridor" ethnic region,and deduces the basic logic of Hongyao people’s settlement in Longji:relying on the natural entity in the first place,then taking the shape of "Dong",and growing the agricultural community with local characteristics.The second chapter focuses on the ethnic origin memory of "Gongye"from Qingzhou,Shandong Province,and makes a thorough and accurate research on the historical materials of Hongyao people,such as the "Da-Gongye" and "XiaoGongye",stele inscriptions and migration legends.On this basis,this chapter outlines the process of Hongyao people’s migration from farming to settlement based on the factors of Dazhai’s history and life cycle,and emphasizes the importance of history as a field where the meaning presenting.The third chapter based on the theory of symbol,in-depth analyzes how the Hongyao people created the village’s regulatory character based on the pre-existing material space and their own cultural imagination in their long-term collective practice after they realized the farming settlement,and then discusses how the Hongyao people derived their views on person from this natural symbol.The fourth chapter transitions from natural symbol to social symbol and focuses on the overall social symbol of Dazhai village in which three basic forms of social symbols are explored in detail:expressive symbol,normative symbol and integrated symbol.Then,taking this as the starting point,this chapter explains the definition and understanding of the category of person from the social symbol system of Dazhai Hongyao people.The fifth chapter,starting with the metaphorical thinking form,is devoted to exploring the inner spiritual world of the Dazhai people and summarizing the overall view of the Hongyao people on "life",which is mainly centered on the connotation of the personhood and the expression of ideal personality.The sixth chapter focuses on the fact that Hongyao people have to face the life of the world economic system in the context of modernity,and how their spiritual category,which is based on the concept of personhood that established through symbolism and metaphor,deals with the economic system that has been justified in the current life of Dazhai people,and develops a more brilliant "collective representation" and personality composition of the Hongyao society.Based on the above detailed discussion,the conclusion summarizes three clear points on the whole:first,the result of redefining landscape from the inside of anthropology is the discovery of the possibility of landscape as a method.As a category,landscape embodies all kinds of social facts which have common characteristics and are of their own kind.The overall structure of this landscape is shown as a continuum from concrete to abstract,from experience to spiritual consciousness,that is,the isomorphism of "view" and "concept".Second,symbol and metaphor are the basic means to establish the spiritual category.It is symbol and metaphor that connect the two ends of reality and image,connect the process connect the process from feeling to idea,and prove the isomorphism of "view" and "concept".Thirdly,as the core concept of the isomorphic continuum of "view" and "concept",the concept of personhood integrates a kind of holistic experience and is presented as various social facts.And the concept of personhood of Hongyao people connotes two levels-the source of imaginary life and the externalization of ideal personality.