为情弃责与为责弃情——论《长生殿》与《桃花扇》的爱情理想

Giving up Responsibility for Love or Giving up Love for Responsibility --Discussing on the Love Ideal of Chans Sheng Dian and Tao Hua Shan

清代的爱情婚姻剧成就最高者首推洪异的《长生殿》与孔尚任的《桃花扇》,二剧分别表达了情重于责、为情弃责的爱情理想和责重于情、为责弃情的爱情理想。为情弃责,是对明中叶以来倡情之风的进一步高扬,是对晚明以来情欲泛滥的世风的警示,是对明末清初情理合一创作思想的反拨。为责弃情是《桃花扇》所标举的爱情新特征。为责弃情,与明清之际经世思潮的广为倡导有关,又是明末清初社会动荡的产物。

Of all the Love and Marriage Dramas in Qing Dynasty, Hongsheng＇ s Chang sheng dian and Kongshangren＇ s Tao hua shan are the most famous ones. The former expressed the love ideal of abdicating responsibility for affect . The later expressed the love ideal of abdicating affect for responsibility . Abdicating responsibility for affection is the further upsurging of the atmosphere of advocating affection. The rectifying of the public morals and mores of canal desire＇s overspilling since the Middle of Ming dynasty, and the correcting of writing ideas of the combination of affection with reason during the cross of Ming and Qing dynasties . The emergence of abdicating affect for responsibility is connected with the world - experiencing tinking climate and the unstable society at the cross of Ming and Qing dynasties.