新“四民”论——试论唐五代文人对“士农工商”的新认识

New "Simin" (Four Groups of People) Theory——the New Understanding of the Literati in Tang and Five-dynasties about "Officials,Farmers,Manufacturers and Merchants"

繁荣的唐代经济为文人创作以经济为素材的小说提供了丰富的素材。本文主要以《太平广记》中的唐五代小说为文本,通过对唐人小说中士商、工商、农商关系的分析,展现文人对四民的认识——新"四民"思想,即士农工商的社会地位排序发生了巨大变化,商人社会地位的提升。

The economic prosperity of Tang Dynasty provided a wealth of material fort the creation of economic fiction. This paper is to analyze the Tang and Five-dynasties fiction in Taiping Collections, to show the new understanding of the literati about ＂officials, farmers, manufacturers and merchants＂, which revealed the new ＂Simin＂idea, and the trernendous change in the rank order of social status and the promotion of businessman.