重新评估唐人小说《冯燕传》的思想价值——兼议司空图、曾布对《冯燕传》的重写

Reevaluation of the Ideological Value of LegendofFengYan —Also of the Rewritings by Sikong Tu and Zeng Bu

唐人小说《冯燕传》是一个纯粹虚构的故事,着力描述作者所谓的道义在两次冲突、两次抉择中的最后胜出。作为特定的历史信息载体,小说突出反映了三方面思想价值:一是宣扬一套脱离封建正统的价值评判标准,作为乱世之音显露出唐王朝趋向衰亡的征兆;二是反映出中唐政治统治的无力和腐败,深刻揭示了没落社会强权为法的现实;三是为地位卑微的小人物立传,开辟了后世中国小说人物平民化的先声。

Legend of Feng Yan is a fictional story written by Shen Yazhi in Tang Dynasty,praising the final success of morality after two contradictions and two choices. As a particularcarrier of historical information, it embodies the ideological values in three aspects： first, toadvocate the value standard that deviates from the feudal orthodox, and implies the decay of thedynasty; second, to reflect the impotence and corruption the government, that reveals the abuseof power; third, to write the story about the humble people, that starts the civilianizationtradition of Chinese novels.