“礼教”与“情教”的艰难跋涉——晚清民初言情小说简论

On the Hard Road from Ritualism to Empathization——A Brief Research on the Romance Novels in the late Qing Dynasty

中国言情小说进入晚清后,强调"情教"大于"礼教",支持青年男女的爱情,反对压抑人性的封建"礼教",在解放"人性"方面是进步的,它也是"小说界革命"的一种形式。但进入民国后,面对残酷的现实,特别是军阀混战、政治黑暗的现状,很多作家对自己的文学主张提出了质疑,开始怀疑自己所批判的文学主张,在精神上又回归传统,由蔑视封建礼教开始拥护封建礼教,他们的主张遭受了"两难选择"。在这种情况下,走出了彻底批判与彻底否定旧秩序的代表作家李涵秋,开创了言情小说社会言情的新模式。

ever since the late Qing Dynasty,Chinese Romance Novels had been emphasizing empathization rather than ritualism.Love bet-ween yang man and woman was advocated,while the feudal ritualism,which depresses humanism,was opposed.This is a way to support the movement of＂Novel Revolution＂.After the set up of China,faced with a social and political chaos, some novelists started to doubt their own literary assertion and returned to the traditional belief.They began to support the feudal ritualism.In such a dilemma,writer LI Han-qiu stood out to break the old order,and censure the feudal ritualism.He started a new page in creation of the romance novels,thus, being considered as a representative writer of romance novel.