试论小厮在《红楼梦》中的作用——以茗烟、兴儿为例

On the Role of Footboys in The Story of the Stone——Take Mingyan and Xinger for Instance

《红楼梦》中的小厮们作为最平庸、最底层的一个人物群,历来为人所忽视,但正是这样一群看似不起眼的小人物,折射出《红楼梦》的博大深邃。曹雪芹采用草灰蛇线、伏脉千里的写法,刻画了这群饱满的人物形象,他们对于整部作品的叙述结构、情节推动以及丰富作品内涵等方面都具有很重要的作用。这些人物,描述篇幅相对都比较短,却个个有血有肉,同样成为《红楼梦》中的典型人物。通过对这些小人物的细致梳理和仔细研究,能够反映出曹雪芹塑造人物形象的别具一格。

In the Story of The Stone,footboys as the most mediocreand common characters have always been ignored by people.But it is such a group of seemingly unremarkable figures that reflects an extensive and profound story.In this work,byusing repetitive clues Cao Xueqin has depicted these visual figures that play a very important role in promoting and developing the plots and enriching the contents.The descriptions of these people are very short,but vivid and make them the typical characters in The Story of the Stone.This thesis combs and studies these unremarkable persons carefully to reflect Cao Xueqin＇s unique style of shaping characters.