《新列国志》中的谶纬叙事

Divination Narration in New Records of the States

冯梦龙在《新列国志》中运用了大量的谶纬叙事,为求史传的真实感,这些谶纬描写以史为据,并非率意虚构,但所据子史杂传实近小说,仍属虚构叙述;他意识到史统散而小说兴、小说可为正史之补,也有意运用谶纬叙事增添敷演、虚实共构,从而超脱史传的逻辑推演和价值判断,生成更多的阐释空间,更富于想象与寓意。

In New Records of the States,Feng Menglong used a lot of divination narration for the sake of historical realism.The divination narration was based not on arbitrary fiction but historical records.He also adopted many note-stories in philosophy and miscellaneous biography,which was in fact close to the novel,still a fictional narrative.He realized that the novel could complement official history,so he used divination narrative to increase fictional plots,thus transcended historical logical deduction and value judgments,and generated more explanatory space,to be more imaginative and moral.