论世界类型故事《白蛇传》的口头传统

On Oral Tradition of The Tale of a White Snake

正是口头媒介的跨文化传播和立体性建构,才使得美女蛇故事成为世界性的类型故事,也使得美女蛇故事的中国化类型《白蛇传》历久弥新,成为流播广泛的故事类型,其悠久的故事传统被深深地烙上了中国文化的印记。深入分析《白蛇传》演变中的口头传统,对于认识世界性的类型故事形成的内在规律具有重要价值。

Oral media with two major functions of cross-cultural communication and 3-dimensional construction contribute much in the making of beauty snake stories as a world story type and make the Chinese one,namely The Tale of a White Snake widely accepted with typical Chinese cultural features.This paper analyses the oral tradition in the development of The Tale of a White Snake to expose the inherent rules of composition of the world type stories.