巴渝大地上的清明上河图——管窥长篇小说《水龙》中20世纪上半叶的重庆民俗文化

Water Dragon:A Scroll of Folk Culture of 20th Century Chongqing

重庆作家王雨的力作《水龙》问世后,颇受读者的欢迎和媒体的好评。这是一部极富民俗风情和地域特色的长篇小说,无异于巴渝大地上的清明上河图,可读性很强,耐人寻味。本文从巴渝景观、建筑曲艺、宴饮婚丧和号子民谣四个大的方面,分析了小说中蕴含的丰富而多元的地域民俗文化意蕴。以小说文本来看地域文化,越是地域的越是民族的,越是乡土的越是世界的,这在《水龙》中有着鲜明的体现。

Water Dragon, a popular novel among readers and reviewers, is a scroll of folk culture and regional features. It is compared to a painting of Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival in modem times. In this article the author has analyzed its folk culture from the following aspects： the landscape of Chongqing, architectures, music, dinning habits, customs for marriage and funeral and balladry, which are all expressed in the novel by Wang Yu, a famous native writer in Chongqing. The author thinks that the rich folk cultures in the novel makes it more readable and be more likely to be accepted by the world.