古代小说中的龙宫及信仰文化考述

The Study on Dragon Palace World and its devotional culture

龙宫原为佛教文化意象,当其以文学意象的身份进入古代小说后,成为小说作品中的一个常见文学形象。受时代的小说创作潮流、创作群体以及受众层次变化的影响,唐宋小说与明清小说中龙宫的文化内涵及美学旨趣发生变化。历代小说中龙宫意象即在这种历史的变迁中不断发展丰富,构建起意蕴深厚的龙宫信仰文化。

The Dragon Palace, rooting in Buddhist cultural construct, has become a common literary construct after it entered into ancient novels as identity of literary construct. Influenced by the cur- rent of novel creation of times and creation community as well as variety of layers, the cultural connotation and the aesthetic purport of the dragon temple in Tang Song novels and Ming Qing novels has changed. The Dragon Palace construct, which develops continuously and becomes abundant in the change of this kind of history, has set up a profound Dragon Palace faith culture.