唐传奇被“贬”之因探析

An Analysis on the Causes of "Depreciation" of Tang Romance

传奇作为一种文体名称,既指唐代小说,又指明清戏曲。当时之所以被"贬",有四个原因:一是正统文学——诗歌的强大,二是严肃史学的排挤,三是"小道""末学"的牵累,四是"俳谐"的曲解。唐传奇之所以能流传下去,在于唐人"作意好奇"、世人皆有"好奇"的心理和契合了特定时代读者大众的文化心理。

Romance as a term of style can both refer to novels in the Tang Dynasty and operas in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.Then it was ＂depreciated＂ for four factors： first,the powerful orthodox literature — poetry;second,marginalization of serious history studies;third,impediment of less-studied insignificant learning;and the misconstruction of ＂comic＂.The reasons that romance of Tang Dynasty could be handed down is that Tang people ＂appealed to curiosity＂,that all people have ＂curious＂ psychology,and that it goes with the readers＇ cultural psychology in specific times.