李渔《怜香伴》非“同性恋”说

Li Yu's Pitying My Sweet Companion Was not a Story of Lesbian

《怜香伴》是清代李渔的《笠翁十种曲》中的一种,历来认为它表现的是古代闺阁女子的同性恋或准同性恋情。但是,细读文本,并结合作者李渔的创作意图和戏剧理论,可以看出《怜香伴》只是对小说戏曲中常见的一男二女婚恋模式进行翻新,用尖新奇巧的方式表现二位女子的友情,并非同性恋故事。

Pitying My Sweet Companion is one of the Ten Songs of Fisherman written by Li Yu in the Qing Dynasty .It has always been believed to describe the Lesbians or Quasi-Lesbians of the ancient boudoir women .However ,reading the text ,and combining with Li Yu’s creation intention and drama theory ,we can know that Pitying My Sweet Companion was just a story of “a man and two women” ,which was a common love pattern in novel and opera ,and described two women’s friendship through a novel way ,but not a story of lesbian .