文人雅集与文言小说的创作及发展规律

Scholars' Elegant Collection and Creation of Classical Chinese Novels and Its Rule of Development

中国古代以"征奇话异"为主要内容的文人雅集活动十分活跃,这极大地刺激了文言小说创作的繁荣。文人雅集还使文言小说在发展过程中表现出某些规律:有时同一故事因参与雅集的人各有叙写或因在不同雅集场合辗转流传而"闻见难一",从而造成文言小说创作中频繁出现一事多载的现象;有时同一作家因参与不同雅集活动而对同一故事有着前后不同的接受途径,于是对同一故事的先后叙写便差异很大;文人雅集还使文言小说表现出明显的传闻性、民间性与娱乐性;参与雅集的小说家之间的交流切磋,往往使他们的小说观念表现出某些共同倾向。

It is quite active of the scholars to collect ＂strange stories＂ in ancient China, which propels the prosperity of novel writing. This also leads to the regularity in classical novel writing： the inconsistency of one story due to different narrators or different narrative places, which leads to the plurality of one story in several versions; even the same writer gets one story in different places and writes differently at different times; it also shows clear oral features, folklore quality and property of entertainment; the communication among writers leads to the commonalities in their concept.