关于宋元刊平话中的阴文

On the characters cut in intaglio in popular stories printed in Song and Yuan Dynasty

宋元刊平话中广泛存在着阴文这一特殊现象，而在明代刊印的章回与话本小说中阴文已消失。宋元刊平话中的阴文主要起醒目的提示作用，但是这种提示是针对说话人的，而非如明以后章回小说的回目等是面对读者的，因此可以从阴文在平话中的存在得出宋元刊平话是未经文人整理的说话底本的结论。阴文作为我国长篇小说发展历史中早期的一个现象，可以作为元刊小说的重要鉴定依据。

The author presents the idea in this treatise that characters cut in intaglio exist com- monly in popular stories printed in Song and Yuan Dynasty. While the characteres have disappeared in story-teller's script and traditional Chinese novel of Ming Dynasty. These characters appear in two ways in Song and Yuan poplar stories. The author studies the ways of the characters' appear- ance, distributions and functions and concludes that these characters function mainly as striking cues. The cues are teller-oriented rather than reader-oriented like the chapter title in the Ming no- vels. The author therefore concludes that the existence of the characters shows that popular stories in Song and Yuan Dynasty are the tellers' manuscripts, which have not been modified by literati. Characters cut in intaglio, as a phenomenon of the earlier novel development, can be an important appraisal basis of the Yuan story.