中文摘要：

失落的人类历史往往只能依靠最能幸存的物化遗存来重新发声，中华民族如何从多元走向一体历史进程的逐渐清晰呈现，正是得助于20世纪以来考古发现的物化遗存如陶器、玉器和青铜器等，尤其是长达八千年的玉石制品大传统与汉语文献所载宝玉小传统遥相呼应，为华夏礼乐文明形成和君子玉德、化干戈为玉帛等核心价值观由来提供了坚实的物证。本文以“夏后氏之璜”神话叙事为中心，立足于汉语语境“文学”发生于礼仪之本义和多重证据法，系统考察新石器时代早期以来玉璜的时空分布及其化异趋同进程，探寻“夏后氏之璜”神话背后的族群故事与文化认同，以及玉璜在礼制文明话语建构中的地位。

英文摘要：

Modem archeological relics including potteries, jades and bronzes, etc. re-bring the lost history to life, such as the process of how the Chinese unified diversity. Especially, the great tradition of jade culture in eight thousand years and the handed-down documents echoing each other at a distance provide solid evidences for the origin of civilization of rite and music and the core values based on jade belief. This paper, focusing on the myth of ＂Huang of Xiahoushi＂, systematically investigated the space-time distribution of jade huang since the early Neolithic and its process of pluralistic integration, explored the story of ethnic group, cultural identitication and the significance of jade huang in the discourse construction of etiquette civilization behind the mythic narrative and the local meaning of literature in ancient Chinese context, based on the multi-evidence method.