钟敬文民间故事研究论析──以二三十年代系列论文为考察对象

A Commentary on Zhong Jingwen's Research on Folktales

钟敬文先生对中国民间故事的研究，二三十年代达到一个高峰。这些文章纠正了以往比较研究只注重相似之处，而不顾“差异”的做法，论证了“差异”在故事类型研究中具有重要意义。他文章的“结尾”不是解决问题的总结，而是新的问题的提出和进一步的思考，表现了对学术真理不懈追求的治学精神。由于研究对象的多样性和复杂性，钟先生研究故事类型的方法也是多样的，并且为我们提供了深入研究的空间。

In the twenties and thirties, Mr.Zhong Jingwen reached his zenith in his research on Chinese folktales. These articles corrected the former compare studies that only paid attention to the similarity and did not considered the difference. These articles also demonstrated the significance of the difference in study of folktale types. The end of these articles was not a sum-up of solving questions, but brought forward new questions and pondered more. All these had reflected Mr. Zhong's lofty spirit in persistently pursuing the truth in his study. Because of the diversity and complexity of his study object, Mr. Zhong's study methods were also diversiform, and, he had provided us extended space to lucubrate.