《三国志通俗演义》天书、符水母题的佛道文化内蕴

The Cultural Connotation of the Sutra and Tao of the Motif of the Ghost Book and Holy Water in The Popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms

《三国志通俗演义》中符水和天书紧密相连,这种母题伴生式叙事,说明两者间存在某种内在有机联系。天书确为天上降临的佛经,此与外域传来的佛经至为相关。天书母题演变中逐渐增加了警告叛逆、天书为正统所用的意蕴。该小说成书的元末明初,正值社会上骗术横行,对天书崇拜进行反思批判的思潮大盛,这也影响到小说对得天书者结局的描写。

In the The Popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms, there is a close relationship between the ghost book and the holy water. This narrative which is accompanied by the motif shows some interconnection between them. The ghost book is the Sutra which comes indeed from the Heaven, and it has some important relationships with the Sutra which is derived from fremdness. In the course of evolvement, the motif gradually increases the meaning of warning treason and being used by the justice. In the late Yuan Dynasty and the early Ming Dynasty, when fraud ran amuck in the whole society, which let the trend of thoughts that adores the ghost book greater. This also influences the ending description about the master of the ghost book in the novel.