《金瓶梅》价值的货币文化解读

Currency Culture of Jinpinmei

从货币观念的视角审视货币所引起的文化现象和文学现象,不失为文化史和文学史研究的一种新方法。《金瓶梅》中人物的货币观念、消费观念、价值观与审美观已超出了传统的农耕文化体系,《金瓶梅》因而成为一种具有近代货币——文化本质内涵的商业文学,即由以稳定性和道德至上为其精神特征的“发乎情,至乎礼义”、重义轻利的农耕文学,演变为以“寻新求变”和金钱至上为其精神特质的“发乎情,至乎利益,披乎礼义”的重利轻义的商业文学。这种变化在中国文学史上具有划时代性。

It is a new methodto inspect cultural and literary phenomena from the angle of currency. The ideas of currency, consumption and aesthetics in Jinpinmei have gone beyond the system of fanning, and become some kind of commercial literature with some literary quality, namely, from farming literature that has steadiness and moral as well as starting from feeling and stopping from rites, toward commercial literature that has focused on money. This change has epoch -making significance in literary history.