沂水刘南宅族谱里收录了较多家族神话,作为族群记忆延续至今,对刘氏家族的生存和发展影响深远。这些家族神话之所以能够产生、流传,与刘氏先祖的早期历史及明清时期的社会文化有很大的关联,它既是对易代之际家族所面临的身份认同困局的应对之举,也是时代宗教文化现象和士人生活、文化惯习的直接反映。通过家族神话,刘氏家族在一定程度上缓解了易代之际“移民”“贰臣”“父子殊途”所造成的身份认同困局,树立了刘应宾及其支脉在家族内外的政治权威,在其家族对当地进行文化控制的过程中发挥了重大作用。 Yishui Liu Nantao family tree contains more family myths, as the continuation of ethnic memory so far, the survival and development of the Liu family far-reaching impact. The reason why these myths can be produced and circulated is closely related to the early history of Liu’s ancestors and the social culture in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It is not only a response to the identity difficulties encountered by families in the days of the Yi Dynasty, It is also a direct reflection of the religious and cultural phenomena of the times and the scholars’ life and cultural habits. Through family myths, the Liu family relieved the identification difficulties caused by the “generation”, “immigrants”, “the courtiers” and “father and son”, and established Liu Yingbin and his branch at The political authority both within and outside the family has played a significant role in the cultural control exercised by the family.