南宁师范大学学报(哲学社会科学版)

传说、歌谣、谚语等口头文学在长期流播中逐渐汇合，形成一种不同于经典文献系统的民间叙事传统，并深度介入社会道德观念的日常理解。围绕治理经验展开的讲述中，清官与贪官的对照反复出现，久而久之成为民间辨识公正与失范的重要参照。理想化的清官形象寄托着人们对良好秩序的期待，而带有讽刺意味的贪官形象，则为社会保留了一种评说权力运行的象征空间。进入家庭伦理层面，相关口头讲述往往通过情节强化与非常化表达，使“孝”“信”等规范获得清晰而可复述的行为指向，并在代际传递中不断被确认和加固。大禹治水神话所呈现的意义更为深远，其关于公共奉献的叙事，与早期秩序观念的形成之间保持着耐人寻味的呼应关系。在当代语境下，这些传统叙事资源并未沉寂，而是被重新调动，进入廉洁文化与治理话语的表达框架。由此看来，口头传统中的道德叙事既保存着社会价值的历史层累，也持续参与现实文化运行，为把握中国社会文化的延续方式提供了一条值得重视的观察线索。

Oral literature such as legends,ballads,and proverbs gradually converged over a long-term spread,forming a folk narrative tradition distinct from the classical textual system.It was deeply involved in the everyday understanding of social moral concepts. In narratives centered on governance experiences,the contrast between upright officials and corrupt officials repeatedly appears,gradually becoming a key reference for the people in discerning justice and anomie. The idealized image of the upright officials embodies people's expectations for good order,while the satirical portrayal of corrupt officials preserves a symbolic space for society to comment on the exercise of power. At the level of family ethics,the relative oral accounts often clarify and reinforce the behavioral guidance of norms such as “filial piety” and “trustworthiness” through plot intensification and extraordinary expressions,which are continuously confirmed and solidified in intergenerational transmission. The myth of Yu the Great taming the floods carries more profound significance;its narrative of public devotion has a thought-provoking resonance with the formation of early concepts of order. In the contemporary context,these traditional narrative resources have not fallen silent;instead,they are being remobilized and incorporated into the expressive frameworks of integrity culture and governance discourse. Thus,moral narratives in oral tradition not only preserve the historical accumulation of social values but also continuously participate in the operation of real-world culture,providing a valuable observational clue for grasping the modes of continuity in Chinese society and culture.