数摺聚清风,一捻生秋意——《红楼梦》中折扇之描写及其作用

Multiple Folds Gather Wind and One Twist Brings Cool——Descriptions of folding fans in A Dream of Red Mansions and corresponding roles

扇子是中国民俗文化中最具代表性的器物之一,《红楼梦》一书中描写的扇子以折扇为主。中国折扇起源于北宋时日本、朝鲜的传入。《红楼梦》运用折扇对丰富人物性格起到了不同凡响的效果,即以写折扇来表现人物的深层性格,借此塑造典型的形象。

Fans are one of the most representative objects in Chinese folk culture.The fans described in A Dream of Red Mansions are mostly folding ones. Chinese folding fans originated from Japan and Korea at the time of Northern Song dynasty.In A Dream of Red Mansions,the employment of folding fans has outstanding effects up- on the enrichment of the personality of characters, namely, the description of folding fans is used to depict the in- ner personality of characters and typical images are made by way of this means.