唐前志怪故事中拟人化蛇意象的文化阐释

Cultural Explanation on the Image of Snakes in the Tales of Mystery before Tang Dynasty

将动物人性化是保存下来的早期志怪小说的主要内容。对这些动物故事的描述,"真实"地反映了当时人们的精神世界,是当时社会思想发展的一个最有力证明。文章通过对魏晋南北朝时期志怪小说中有代表性的"蛇"故事文本的阅读分析,从文化人类学的角度来考察这些志怪故事的产生及其背后所隐藏的社会内容,在报恩观念和幻化观念中寻求人性化故事的合理解释,获得对中国民俗信仰的深层理念和中国文学生命移植原理的认知。

To humanize animals is one of the most glaring contents in the age-old tales of mystery. These animal tales reflect authentically people＇s spiritual world of the times, which strongly proves the development of thinking in the society. By analyzing the discourse of some snake tales of mystery in Wei, Jin, Northern and Southern Dynasties, the writer tries to explore the origin and implication of these mysterious tales from the perspective of culture-anthropology, trying to find reasonable explanation of the humanizing stories with the concept of repaying an obligation and witchcraft so as to acquires a deep comprehension of Chinese folk-customs and the principle of life transplanting in Chinese literature.