论宋代文言小说中的果报题材

On Theme of Effect and Retribution in the Classical Fictions in the Song Dynasty

宋代文言小说中果报题材作品数量众多,类型丰富,其中大多数作品是借中国传统因果报应观念或佛教轮回果报学说的形式,来表现儒家道德伦理的实质内容,以达到劝惩教化的目的。宋代文言小说作者这种强烈的劝惩意识,与时代对文学教化功能的重视有直接的关系。

The classical fictions in the Song Dynasty are numerous and various, most of which are about Confucian ethics based on Chinese traditional concept of Effect and Retribution or Buddhist theory of metempsychosis in a hope to exhort and moralize people. This strong sense of exhortations held by the writers in the Song Dynasty is directly related to moralizing functions of novels imposed on by the times.