宗源瀚日记的自我书写——兼论近代日记的多维表达功能

Self-Writing of Zong Yuanhan’s Journal:On the Multiple Expressive Functions of Modern Diary

晚清官员宗源瀚的日记在自我书写方面呈现多样性与隐蔽性特征,借之可窥近代日记丰富的表达功能,以及由公向私的转变痕迹。具体而言,日记中插入的“回溯性书写”与“即时性书写”相辅相成,使日记部分承担自传与回忆录的功能。作者通过对争议事件的重新叙写,对内维持自我叙事同一性,对外完成形象整饰,日记由此成为解释自我、重构自我的媒介,并借用隐蔽手法表达不便直言的隐衷,从而达到情绪纾解与自我疗愈的目的。

Zong Yuanhan was an official in the late Qing Dynasty.The self-writing in his diary shows the characteristics of diversity and concealment.Throughout his diary,we can see the modern diary’s stylistic function and its transformation from the public text to the private one.Firstly,the"retrospective writing"and"instant writing"inserted in the diary complement with each other,so that the diary undertakes the functions of autobiography and memoir to a certain extent.The diarist maintained the self-narrative identity internally and completed self-image shaping externally by redescribing the controversial events.Therefore,the diary has become a medium for understanding,interpreting and reconstructing the diarist himself.In addition,the diarist uses the hidden means to express his inner thoughts that are inconvenient to reveal directly,so as to relieve his negative emotions and achieve the purpose of self-treatment.