中国古代小说中的城市书写及现代阐释

Cities in Traditional Chinese Fiction and Their Modern Interpretation

城市的多重空间对于中国古代小说的城市书写产生了深远影响。从作为故事场景而出现的城市空间展示和城市地标聚焦,到政治斗争、权力象征、人才选拔和节日狂欢等都市政治文化的书写,再到发迹变泰的平民梦想、两性相悦的市井传奇、司法公正的内在渴望所构成的市民日常生活描绘,古代小说的城市书写展示了远比地理空间丰富得多的政治文化表征和日常生活内涵。这些城市书写塑造了鲜明而各具特征的城市意象,同时这些意象又成为城市市民共享的生活体验和文化想象,并使生活于同一城市的市民获得共同的文化认同和立场。

The complex space of cities exerted a profound and far-reaching influence on traditional Chinese fiction writing.Starting from the description of city spaces,particularly urban landmarks,as the backdrop for stories and ranging through the urban political culture of political struggles,power symbols,the selection of talent,and festivals and carnivals to the daily life of city dwellers with their dreams of prosperity,legendary love stories and inner yearning for justice,the cities of traditional Chinese fiction offer us a picture that goes far beyond the merely geographic to show political and cultural indicators and the contents of daily life.Such descriptions created vivid and distinct city images that in turn became the common life experience and cultural imagination of urban dwellers and offered a common cultural identity and standpoint for those living in the same city.