Good gibbons and evil macaques: a historical review on cognitive features of non-human primates in Chinese traditional culture
Good gibbons and evil macaques: a historical review on cognitive features of non-human primates in Chinese traditional culture
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善长臂猿与恶猕猴:中国传统文化中非人灵长类认知特征的历史回顾
DOI:
10.1007/s10329-015-0472-4
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2015-06
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影响因子:
1.7
通讯作者:
Zhang Peng
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作者:
Zhang Peng
For several thousand years the ancient Chinese have accumulated rich knowledge, in the form of written literature and folklore, on the non-human primates widely distributed in China. I have used critical text analysis and discourse analysis to clarify when and how ancient Chinese distinguished gibbons from macaques. I divided the progress into four main stages, the Pre-Shang to Shang dynasty (before 1046 BC), the Zhou to Han dynasty (1046 BC–220 AD), the six dynasties to Song dynasty (220–1279 AD), and the Yuan to Qing dynasties (1279–1840 AD). I found that China’s traditional cognition of gibbons and macaques emphasized the appearance of animals, organoleptic performance, or even whether or not their behavior was “moral”. They described them as human-like animals by ethical standards but ignored the species itself. This kind of cognitive style actually embodies the “pursuit of goodness”, which is the feature of Chinese traditional culture. This study presents some original views on Chinese traditional knowledge of non-human primates.
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