《跻春台》思想性研究——兼论明清拟话本小说的式微

The Study on the Ideological Content in Jichuntai——And on the Decline of the Colloquial Short Stories in Ming and Qing Dynasties

拟话本小说在清中叶以后逐渐走向式微的原因涉及多个方面,社会、政治、思想以及形式等因素都兼而有之,但小说在思想内容上的陈腐守旧、缺少创造力,不能满足读者的需要,是其走向灭亡的主要原因。川人刘省三的《跻春台》就是如此,小说专为"劝善"而作,强烈的劝善惩恶的功利主旨使其沦为了一部道德劝善书,缺少了作为小说应有的高度的思想性和艺术性等,因此,其成为目前公认的清代最后一部拟话本小说集亦是必然。

The reasons why the colloquial short stories walked into decline during Ming and Qing Dynasties are complex which in- volve social, political, ideological and formal factors. However the most important reasons lie in its stale ideas in thinking and less creativity in content, which obviously can＇ t satisfy the readers＇ need. So it is with the story Jichuntai by Liu Shengsan writ- ten to encourase kindness. It has a strong orientation toward justice and moral behavior advocated by Daoism and is more like in- structions on morality, which makes it lack the necessary ideological and artistic senses in a story. So it is inevitably regarded by the present public as the last collection of colloquial short stories in Qing Dynasty.