明代娼妓和民歌关系论略

Brief Comments on the Relationship between Prostitutes of Ming Dynasty and Folk Songs

逮乎晚明 ,民歌的声势愈盛 ,民歌纵情声色的特征也愈明显 ,因而其“刺激”旧规则下诗文创作的力度也愈大 ,与晚明文艺革新思潮的联系也愈加紧密。在讨论这一问题的过程中 ,娼妓题材的广泛介入是一个尤须注意的现象———或许可以这样说 :正是有了娼妓的影子在 。

Approaching late Ming Dynasty, folk songs were gaining momentum; their indulgence in pornography was becoming ever more striking, thus more intensely “stimulating” the dynamics of poetic and prose writing under the old regulations, and establishing a closer link between them and the innovative trends in late Ming literature and art. In discussing the issue, the extensive intervention of the prostitution theme deserves special attention. We might say that it is owing to the shadows of prostitutes that folk songs of Ming irradiate a unique splendor.