清代小说视野下的扬州城市文化

Yangzhou City Culture under the Vision of Novels in the Qing Dynasty

扬州是我国历史上的文化名城,清代中叶的扬州尤为繁盛。清代小说对扬州城市文化有着大量的不同方面的书写。它们通过对扬州细致入微的观察和体认,描述了扬州的园林美景、民俗游艺,塑造了扬州的盐商、文士及各种女性形象,为我们呈现出扬州丰富多彩的市井风物和风俗人情,以及扬州城市所特有的人文内涵。

Yangzhou is a historical and cultural city in China, particularly flourished in the middle of the Qing dynasty. Novels in the Qing dynasty have many different descriptions about the culture of Yangzhou. They describe the Yangzhou’ s garden sceneries, the folk custom activities and shape the salt merchants, the literatis and all kinds of female images. They present us the rich and colorful folk customs and the unique cultural connotations.