落花飘零各有命——《莺莺传》、《霍小玉传》之我见

Girls in the Same Period but with Different Lives——My opinion on "The Story of Ying Ying" and "The Story of Huo Xiaoyu"

文章以《莺莺传》、《霍小玉传》为切入口,认为寒门士子因追逐仕途经济之成功,不惜始乱终弃。而崔莺莺因出身甲姓,与出身卑微的霍小玉虽然处在同一时代,同为弃妇却命运殊途。作文者也因创作宗旨异趣而让后人评价不一。

Based on two well-known novels of ancient China, also two tragedies about how two young women sincerely craving for true love finally get betrayed, ＂The Story of Ying Ying＂ and ＂The Story of Huo Xiaoyu＂, this paper discloses and analyses how the temptation of a successful official career and the accompanied great fortune in the imperial times makes intellectuals of humble origin boldly seduce and take advantage of naive young girls but in the end abandon them, and compares how abandoned women, Ying Ying, a girl of a powerful family, and Huo Xiaoyu, a girl of a humble family, though living in the same period, have totally different lives. The novelists also get later generations＇controversial reviews because of the different creations and descriptions in the two novels.