《红楼梦》:漆艺叙事向度的文学解读

A Dream of Red Mansions:A Narrative Dimension to the Literary Interpretation of Lacquer Art

漆艺向来是一种贵族工艺,它集权威、财富与地位于一身。《红楼梦》是一部中国漆艺文化集成之小说,在作品中,漆艺确乎是四大家族权力、富贵与式微的象征。《红楼梦》之漆艺文化形象再现了封建贵族家庭生活的纤弱、奢侈与糜烂,也揭露我国封建社会集权文化的内在机制与危机。金陵贵族名门贾、史、王、薛四大家族如同清代漆艺鼎盛一样,其背后俨然昭示其鼎盛走向衰亡的历史征兆与必然命运。因此《红楼梦》的漆艺世界暗合了该文学文本之叙事向度及批评维度。

Lacquer art has always been an Aristocratic arts and crafts, it represents authority, wealth and power. A dream of Red Mansions integrated a great deal of lacquer culture. Lacquer is a representation of the four big families＇ power, prosperity and decline in the works. Image of lacquer culture in A dream of Red Mansions had reproduced the weakness, luxury and erosion in feudal aristocracy family lives. It also exposed the inherent mechanism and crisis of China＇ s feudal society and centralized cul- ture. Jia, Shi, Wong, Xue of distinguished Jinling family names prospered as the heyday of Qing Dynasty lacquer, they have showed a trend of decline and inevitable destiny. Therefore, a narrative dimension of A dream of Red Mansions lacquer art impli- cates a criticism dimension of its literature text.