文言小说的观念:“采”

"Collecting" and the emergence of classical Chinese fiction

“采”对于“诗”具有发生的意义,文言小说早期之“缀”、“采”与“采诗”之“求诸野”在方式上是相通的,故“采”对于文言小说也具有发生的意义。考察文言小说创作实际状况,发现文言小说从其产生就与“采”相始终,“采”成为文言小说的一个“观念”,采录也成为文言小说最主要的写作姿态。以上方面,决定了文言小说内容上的“博”、“杂”,在结构上的“小”及作家非正统心态三个本质的规定性。

'Collecting' is of great significance to the emergence of poetry to a certain degree. In the early period of classical Chinese fiction, 'collecting'and'compiling'which appear in classical Chinese novel are just equivalent to'inquiring folks which comes forth in collecting poetry', so'collecting'is also of great significance to the emergence of classical Chinese novel. By investigating the actual state of the emergence of classical Chinese novel, we can find that classical Chinese novel has strong relations with 'collecting' from beginning to end, and 'collecting' becomes a concept of the classical Chinese novel, and it also becomes the main writing fashion of classical Chinese novel. All the above-mentioned determine that the classical Chinese novel has three essential characters which are rich and miscellaneous content, small structure and unorthodox writer's psychology.