A Study On The Yan Emperor's Narrative In The Construction Of A Modern Multi-ethnic Stat

As one of the earliest cultural ancestors of the Chinese nation,Yandi has been the focus of people’s attention since ancient times.As a complex divine figure,his image and status have been transformed several times in the course of thousands of years of oral narration,literature writing and other methods of transmission,he has been shaped into what we see today.This paper attempts to get rid of the endless search for the historical origin of Yandi,and re-understand the relationship among Yandi’s narrative,nation,ethnic and culture from the logic of identity construction.Therefore,this paper studies Yandi’s narrative from the perspective of modern multiethnic state construction,discusses the early image of Yandi in the ancient Chinese Yandi’s narrative,and combs the Yandi’s narrative in the Qin and Han Dynasties,the late Qing and the Republic of China,after the Reform and Opening-up and other important changes in the three historical nodes.According to the image basis and the evolution process,this paper attempts to construct the three levels of identity mechanism of Yandi’s narrative in the construction of a modern multiethnic state,and further analyzes the value and significance of Yandi’s narrative in the construction of a modern multiethnic state.The paper includes three parts: introduction,text and conclusion.The text has four chapters.In the introduction,it mainly defines the research object,introduces the significance and introduction of the topic,summarizes the relevant research status at domestic and abroad,and shows the research ideas and framework,research methods and innovations of the paper.The first chapter,based on the documents of the pre-Qin and Han dynasties,studies the early deity of Yandi and its derivation,the relationship between Yandi and other divine figures,the various titles of Yandi and their fixation,and regards them as the narrative materials that will be used when the later generations narrate Yandi.The second chapter selects three important nodes of the historical evolution of Yandi’s narrative: the Qin and Han Dynasties,the late Qing and the Republic of China,and the Reform and Opening-up.It tries to show the evolution trend of Yandi’s narrative in the historical development through different epitomes of the three periods.This chapter focuses on the change of the status of Yandi and the change of the relationship between Yandi and Huangdi,focusing on the deep reasons such as the social context behind the change.In the third chapter,according to the hierarchical order of cultural identity,the current identity mechanism of Yandi’s narrative is divided into three levels: the identity level symbolized by the words of "descendants of the Yandi and Huangdi",the identity level centered on the Yandi’s cultural landscape,and the identity level based on the Shennong’s narration of the God of Agriculture.Through the analysis of the three levels,this chapter attempts to build a complete narrative identity mechanism of Yandi in the construction of a multiethnic state.The fourth chapter,from the perspective of the mutual construction of Yandi’s narration and identity in modern multiethnic states,analyzes the basic role of Yandi’s narration in ethnic cultural identity,and in turn analyzes the selective activation of Yandi’s narration by identity psychology.Based on the mutual construction of narrative and identity,this chapter extracts the value and dilemma of Yandi’s narrative in the construction of identity.This not only reflects the unique significance of ancient historical figures for ethnic cultural identity,but also shows how the Yandi stabilized the core connotation in the process of historical change,and how to help the multiethnic state better cohere identity.The conclusion part is the summary of the full text.This paper believes that the reason why Yandi’s narration can play its role in the construction of a modern multiethnic state lies in the close relationship between its narration and the construction of identity.Like many classical myths and historical narratives,Yandi’s narrative is only a part of the current cultural and identity construction,but its special place is that from the official to the folk,Yandi’s narrative has developed a unique narrative form.