从陶渊明到吴承恩——对生死超越的再探索

From TAO Yuan-ming to WU Cheng-en——Another Exploration of Death Exceeding

陶渊明在面对生命有限性的问题时,经过反复的理性求索采取了“纵浪大化中,不喜亦不惧”的态度。千百年后,对陶渊明颇有知己之感的《西游记》作者吴承恩,通过在小说创作中打破阴司传统上对生死的绝对决定权,塑造一个完整美好的神仙社会,在感性的道路上淡化了世俗社会对于生死的恐惧。二人通过理性、感性两条道路,殊途同归,最终体现的是两者摒弃名利、返归自然的价值追求上的一致。

TAO Yuan- ming exceeded the fear of death through speculation as we see in his poems. Thousands of yeats later, WU Cheng- en, the author of Journey To The West , finished the same task by founding a sentimental world without death.So, they arrived the same destination through different ways. This phenomenon reflects the consistency of the value of the two.