明清神魔小说与侠文化

Chivalrous Culture and Gods-and-Ghosts novels in the Ming and Qing Dynasties

神仙们斩妖除魔、普救万民的叙述格局,极似侠客闯荡江湖、行侠仗义。神灵以法术仗义,侠客以武力行侠,法术与武力产生了文化意义上的共通性。神魔小说多角度展示了侠文化的影响,而作为明清两大小说流派———神魔、侠义则异构同质、兴衰相继。

The narration pattern of gods killing ghosts, rescuing the people is like that of chivalrous heroes making a living away from their hometown and doing righteous things all over the country. Gods uphold justice with their magic arts, while chivalrous heroes are competent and chivalrous by the force of arms, so magic arts and force of arms have produced the compatibility in the cultural meaning. Gods-and-ghosts novels showed in many angles the influence of chivalrous culture. And as two major novel schools of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, gods-and-ghosts novels and the formal chivalry novels, were homogenous, and rose and declined in succession.