唐传奇“仙女”意象管窥

Analyses of Fairy Imagery of Short Stories of Tang Dynasty

婚恋题材的传奇被视为唐小说中的“珍品”是一个不争的事实。在此类文本中,人仙相恋又是其不可分割的一部分。唐传奇中的人仙相恋情节,其神仙意象大都由女性扮演。大体说来,这些女仙可分两类,一是天仙和地仙,另一是被喻为仙女的人间妓女等风情女子。观照含有两类仙女意象的传奇文本,从其所蕴藏的文化内涵看,我们发现它们之间在表达的侧重点上有着明显的不同。具体说来,在仙女与凡男相爱的文本中,仙女意象重在从女性的层面来反映社会生活;而在人间“仙女”与男子情恋的文本中,则推移到从男性的角度来显现客观现实。

It is an indisputable fact that the love and marriage story is regarded as me treasures of me novel in Tang Dynasty. In these kinds of texts, the love story of the person and the immortal also is an inseparable part. The plot of the person loved the immortal in Tang short stories, the immortal role mostly acted by the female. Overall, these fairies may divide into two kinds, one kind is the fairy on the space and goddess in the world, the other is the prostitute and so on, who analogied as the fairy. Analyzed these two kinds of fairies imagery, from the cultural connotation in which it is contained, we could discover the obvious difference in the expression emphasis between them. It concretely showed in the version when the fairy fell in love with the man in the world, it reflected the social life from the female side ; But in those texts which the goddess in the world loved the man, it turned to reflect the objective reality from the masculine angle.