《惊鸿记》:明代的梅妃故事——兼谈《混唐平西传》

A Biography of "Swan Goose":A Story of Imperial Concubine Mei in Ming Dynasty——Also on A Legend of Quelling the West in Chaotic Tang Dynasty

通过梅妃故事产生过程的梳理,可认为梅妃的形象是有意识地针对杨妃的形象而精心塑造出来的。但明代戏曲《惊鸿记》中梅妃的形象有了很大发展,她不但谴责、抨击杨妃,形成作品贬杨褒梅的倾向,而且还突破情缘层面,通过抨击和褒贬将矛盾扩大到政治领域、后宫生活、君臣关系、民族矛盾等。这是明代梅妃故事发展的功能和意义。

The image of imperial concubine Mei was elaborately portrayed for the purpose of directing against another imperial concubine Yang. However, in the opera of A Biography of ＂Swan Goose＂ in Ming Dynasty, Mei＇s image was greatly developed, for it not only played a role in criticizing and attacking Yang which resulted in a trend in art products to blame Yang and praise Mei, but extended the contradictions to the political fields, the lives of imperial harem, the relations between the King and the ministers, and the ethnic contradictions, etc. This is exactly where the functions and meaning of Mei＇s story development lie.