古代小说中诚信观念与复仇主题的内在联系论略——以明代白话短篇小说“三言”“二拍”为中心

Discussion on the Inner links Between Honesty & Faith Sense and Revenge thme of Ancient Chinese Novels --Based on Ming Dynasty's vernacular short stories "SAN YAN" & "ER PAI"

在中国古代小说特别是通俗小说中,诚实、忠义、信义、信用等都作为作家歌颂的主题。同儒家提倡的仁心与佛家的自律精神相一致。但当诚信观念被践踏时,便会催生出复仇这一承载着人类恩怨的情感历程。这是因为当诚实与信义被践踏、被背弃时,受到伤害的一方基于被愚弄的愤怒以及被伤害的仇恨而实行报复,背信弃义的受害者往往会变成复仇主体,这样诚信观念与复仇主体之间便产生了一种内在的联系。

Novel is the narrative literature of describing typical social life, it has close relation with social life, therefore in the ancient Chinese novels particularly the popular literature, honest, loyalty, good faith, trustworthiness were the themes extolled by novelists. This is a positive honest ＆ faith sense; it is of the same view of benevolence advocated by the Confucianists and self - discipline spirit advocated by Buddhism. However, when the honest ＆ faith sense is trampled, it becomes a distorted moral concept. This is a moral changing process, and during this changing process, it inevitably engenders revenge recording the emotion course of mankind resentment. This is because when honest and good faith are trampled and deserted, the hurt party based on the deceived indignation and hurt hostility will make reprisals, and the perfidiously hurt party normally becomes a revenge subject. Thus a inner link between the honest ＆ faith sense and revenge subject is engendered. This paper elaborates the inner links between honest ＆ faith sense and revenge theme through analyzing the related contents of MING and QING Dynasties＇ short stories.