《金瓶梅词话》地理背景考

Verifying the geographical background of“Jin Ping Mei Cihua”

《金瓶梅词话》表面上写的是“山东省清河县”，其实作者采用的是借代的修辞手法，暗指明代的都城北京。从《金瓶梅》中涉及到的街巷、寺庙庵观和其他一些专有名称与三部北京“方志”比较来看，即可得到完全的证实，特别是《词话》的第九十回，作者明白直露地告知写的就是北京。除北京外，作品还涉及到了临清、扬州、淮安等地方，这与西门庆的原型明武宗南巡有直接的关系。

《Jin Ping Mei Cihua》reads “Qinghe county,Shandong Province” in word,but actually it alludes Beijing,thecapital of Ming dynasty.Figureground as figure of speech,is adopted by the author.From the compare between the streets,temple and nunnery and other specific names involved in《Jin Ping Mei》and the three local topography of Beijing,we canattest to this situation.Especially in chapter 90,the author tells straightly and clearly it is Beijing.The works involves inLinqing,Yangzhou,Huai'an etc except Beijing which is related directly to the south—patrol of prototype of Xi Menqing,Wuzong of Ming dynasty.