“江湖”:从文化语境到文学文本——论武侠小说中的江湖世界

The Wide World of Life:from Cultural Context to Literary Text——The Wide World of Life in Kung Fu Novels

在中国文化传统中,"江湖"具有全身远害之义,它代表的是文人的失意与落魄。而武侠小说所虚构的江湖世界,一方面把原来错综复杂的政治、经济等社会关系化约成简单的概念,如正义与邪恶的对立、恩怨与情仇的划分,自给自足地呈现出此一世界的规律;另一方面以模拟的方式,复制了现实世界的种种面相,展现复杂的人性,成为现实世界的一个缩影。

In traditional Chinese culture, the wide world, with the implication of protecting oneself from any harm, represents the frustration and the plight of being down and out of man of letters. The originally complicated political, economic and other social relations in kung fu novels are described as simple concepts such as the confrontation between justice and vice, this world. On the other hand, these relations prese humanness is exemplified here, forming a miniature this world. However the fictional wide world describ are mainly follow the three trends： unconventional, the division of love and hatred, which presents the law of nt the various sides of the real world in which the complex of the real world. Usually we use ＂the wide world＂ to call ed by the different kung fu novel writers and the real world direct and metaphorical.