元明民间叙事文本中关羽的另类形象

An Idiosyncratic Image of Guan Yu in the Folklore of the Yuan and the Ming Dynasty

元明民间叙事文本叙写了一些特殊的关羽故事,在忠、义、勇、智之外,塑造了关羽形象的另一面头脑简单、无情无义、自私、无礼、残忍、势利、心胸狭窄。这一另类关羽形象的塑造,致使民间叙事中关羽的整体形象出现分裂和矛盾,凸显了民间叙事和文人叙事在关羽形象塑造上的差异。其差异的出现与创作主体、接受对象及关戏演出的文化功能相联系。

Some idiosyncratic stories about Guan Yu are read in the folklore of the Yuan and the Ming Dynasty. In these stories, Guan Yu, besides his classic qualities, such as loyalty, solidarity, brevity, and intelligence, was described as being simple-minded, pitiless, selfish, impolite, cruel, snobbish, and narrow- minded. The portrayal of this idiosyncratic image of Guan Yu caused a decomposition and contradiction of the wholesome image of Guan Yu in the folklore and demonstrated the discrepancy of Guan Yu＇ s image between folklore description and scholarly description. And this discrepancy is related to the writer, the reader and cultural function of plays about Guan Yu.