从《夷坚志》看宋代侠义小说的特色和成就

The Characteristics and Achievements of Chivalrous Novels in Song Dynasty from Yi Jian Zhi

《夷坚志》是宋代影响最大的一部文言小说集,集中有许多侠义小说,这些小说多以宋金战争为背景演绎故事,塑造了女性侠、文人侠、士子侠、市井侠等类型众多的侠义之士,他们的侠举义行不局限于为市井细民打抱不平,有时涉及国家与民族利益,融入了他们的爱国之情,从中可以看到,宋人的侠观念更宽泛了,侠内涵更丰富了,侠文化取得了较大的进步和发展,有着鲜明的时代特色。

Yi Jian Zhi is the most influential classical Chinese Novels in the Song Dynasty,including many chivalrous novels which create stories under the background of the war between Song and Jin,these stories also create many female knight-errant,literary knight-errant,scholar knight-errant and common knight-errant and so on. Their chivalrous behaviors not only happen for the mass, sometimes for the state and national interests. This makes their patriotism show well. From this we can see a wider chivalrous concept and a more abundant chivalrous connotation in Song Dynasty. Chivalrous culture has made a greater progress and development and has distinctive characteristics of the times.