古典小说描写中“笑”的妙用

Usage of Describing Smiling in Chinese Classical Novel

笑是人正常的生理现象,也是一种情感表现。由于笑是人的心理情感表达的最基本的方式之一,因此在中国古典小说中,表现笑往往是作家写人传情的重要方法。“笑”成了刻画人物形象、传递主体情感的一种媒介。古典小说家自觉运用艺术辩证法,通过对人物不同的“笑”态的描写,把读者带进变化多端、五光十色的人物内心世界,向我们展示不同人物不同的情感世界,使得人物形象鲜明生动。

Smiling is a normal physiological phenomenon of human beings and also a kind of emotional displaying. Smiling is one of the most basic ways for persons to show mental emotion, so in our Chinese classical novels, describing smile is usually an important method which writers use to depict characters of people and spread their feelings. Smiling becomes a kind of medium for depicting the person image and expressing emotion. The classic novelists bring readers into various and multicolored personal inner world by using a kind of art dialectical method and depicting different smiling of characters. Therefore in this way the writers can make the characters＇ image clear and vivid and obtain fairly high art achievement.