中国古代寓言故事考辨

Textual Research on the Ancient Chinese Fables

由于在中国古代一直没有"寓言"这一专门文体的称谓,且别称较多,同时也没有一部寓言专史、一部寓言专论或者寓言专集,大多散见于或寄生于其它文类作品中,因此从寓言故事的界定、中国古代寓言故事历史概述、中国古代寓言故事今考和中国古代寓言故事的收集现状四个方面对中国古代寓言故事进行考辨,希望能对中国古代寓言故事的收集、整理提供一些参考价值。

In ancient China ,there was no such a stylistic name as “fable” but with a lot of alternative names ,and there was neither a history book nor a monograph nor a classified collection on ancient Chinese fables .Most of the ancient Chinese fables are scattered or parasitized in the other categories of literary works .Thus ,the textual research on ancient Chinese fables deals with the four aspects ：the definition of fable ,the brief introduction ,the textual research and the col-lection status of ancient Chinese fables ,in hopes of its reference value for the work of collecting and collating ancient Chi-nese fables .