【摘要】 传唱于土族民间的《思不吾拉》,自以文本形式出现后,作为土族民间文学的重要内容走入学术研究视野。《思不吾拉》是不是神话,引来学者的争论。土族历史记忆的残缺,导致族群认同的迷失,民族文化成了无本之木,《思不吾拉》的定性和阐释需要正本清源。文章揭示土族的族源是来自中亚的粟特人,"思不"即是粟特人政教首领萨保的同音异写,具有宗教职能的萨保又被译写作"珊蛮"(萨满),《思不吾拉》既是赞美英雄的史诗,也是赞美珊蛮的神歌。更多还原

【Abstract】 SiBuWuLa,a divine song of Tu nationality,has stirred the academic research as a kind of folk literature with the appearance of its textual form.However,whether it is a fairy tale has aroused scholars’ arguments.Therefore it is necessary to clear up the origins and interpretations due to the loss of ethnic identity and incomplete historical memory of the Tu nationality.This article reveals that the ethnic origin of the Tu nationality is from the Sogdians in Central Asia.SiBuWuLais just an epic to praise their religious leader and hero SaBao,whose name is spelled as SiBu,and also translated and written as " Shan Man"(Shaman).更多还原