“再生”神话与庆春仪式——冠礼仪式时间探考

关于冠礼举行时间，历来是礼学研究中关键而聚讼难已的问题。文章以“再生”神话的知识、视野和四重证据法，在世界范围成年礼举行时节、象征意义与庆祝宇宙重生的庆春仪式的象征性认同关系的通观下，结合中国以庆春仪式实践报本反始的“再生”神话，和新出《日书》文献，重新考察了《夏小正》“二月冠子取妇”的记载，尝试对中国冠礼原初行礼日期及其仪式象征进行新的探讨，试图提供一种化解纷争的解释。

＂Rebirth＂ Myth and Ceremony of Celebrating the Spring Festival -- An Inquiry into the Time of Ceremony for Boy＇ s Coming of Age

The time of the ceremony for boy＇s coming of age has been the key issue in the study of rite, but so far no agreement has been achieved in this field. By means of ＂rebirth＂ myth, perspective and fourfold evidence, this paper takes into account the relation between the time and symbolic meanings of the worldwide ceremonies for coming of age, and the symbolic identity of the ceremonies of cerebrating spring that cerebrate the rebirth of the universe, and combines the Chinese ＂rebirth＂ myth about ceremony of cerebrating the Spring Festival and the literature of the newly-- published Book of Sun, and re-examines the record on ＂taking a wife at February, the time of coming of age＂ of Xia Xiao Zheng. The paper also makes a tentative inquiry into the original date for and the symbols of such ceremonies in China, and finally tries to provide an explanation to resolve disputes in this field.