石敢當由中國傳入琉球群島的歷史非常久遠,流播過程中產生了深厚的有形與無形的文化積淀。琉球石敢當文化的存在形式,形象地反映出琉球群島如何在中國、日本、朝鮮半島和東南亞多種文化影響下發展起自己的文化,并不斷將整個東亞文化內化為自己的一部分。石敢當文化在琉球群島當代生活中的最新衍化,正是這一文化內化狀態的一部分。

This paper takes the materials collected from field research in Ryukyu Islands as its basis,surveys the sources relevant to Shigandang culture in the greater East Asian region,and performs a comprehensive evaluation of the cultural position of Shigandang culture in Ryukyu Islands.The author indicates that historically there has been a long-established influx of Chinese culture to Ryukyu Islands,which sedimented into both material and immaterial local cultural elements.Shigandangculture’s current form of existence in the Ryukyu Islands vividly reflects the process of how Ryukyu Islands developed its own culture under the influence from multiple sources,including China,Japan,the Korean Pennisula,and Southeast Asia,while continuously internalizing the greater East Asian culture into its own.This paper also notes the latest derivatives of Shigandangculture in Ryukyu Islands’contemporary society and considers them as a part of continuous local internalization of Shigandangculture.