“神话”、“历史”的联袂与分裂——以1902年为起点

1902年前后，国人从日本译介了为数不少的史学著作，对“文明”和“历史”的理解拓展到美术、哲学、法律、宗教、风俗等领域，神话学与历史学同源联袂而生。此时，“神话”一词并没经过太多的本土过滤和反思，没有可能去面对“语力怪神”现象，更没有机会去统摄中国本土的神圣叙事。此后，受西学范式影响，神话学与历史学分裂，遂成为被史学家排斥、被文学家接纳的民间文学内容。基于反思传统与反思现代的双向动力，当下亟需重新面对中国“神话”与“历史”，将之作为进入本土文化传统和文明基因的重要门径，以此引导对中国文化做追本溯源式的全盘理解，对中国历史叙事和现代神话学做批判性整合思考。

The Rally and the Split between Myth and History - Starting from the year of 1902

Quite a few of works about history science were translated into Chinese and then introduced to Chinese people around the year of 1902. From then on,Chinese people learn to explore＂eivilization＇and＂history＇from the perspective of such fields as art, philosophy, law, religions and customs. Thus,mythology and history share the same origin. But the mythology at that time was different from the Chinese traditional one. Later,mythology split with history because of the influence of the western learning paradigms. Then mythology was rejected but accepted by man of letters and became part of folk literature. For a rethink of history and modern world,＂mythology＂and＂history＂need a second thought. Taking them as a helpful approach the local culture traditions and civilization origin,the Chinese culture is explored from its very origin till now,and critical thinking about the Chinese history narration and modern mythology is made.