婆心救世 曲笔为文——论“三言”因果报应思想

Savior With Good Intentions and Writing Articles in Veiled Ways——On Karma in San Yan by Feng Menglong

冯梦龙的"三言"是一部受因果报应思想十分明显的作品。其中涉及这种思想的作品,大约占其总篇的三分之一。这种因果报应的思想,历来多受人之诟病,不被人们所认可。对于这些劝善惩恶的作品,我们不能仅仅看到它的因果报应的外在形式,更要看到它的善恶观念。这种善恶观念实际上就是一种伦理道德观念。从"三言"中的果报小说所表现的伦理观念来看,其主要倾向应该是进步的。

San Yan, a famous work by Feng Menglong, accepts very obvious karma thought, which one third of his works involve in the thought. However, the thought of karma is not accepted by people and has always been denounced. We can not merely notice the extrinsic pattern form of Karma from these works, but more important, we should notice the concept of good and evil between the lines, which is inclined in San Yah novels.