《绿窗新话》校释引言

Introduction to Collation and Annotation of New Words by the Green Window

《绿窗新话》海内藏本所见仅有二本,即吴兴嘉业堂藏本和德化点易堂抄本。著者皇都风月主人的生活年代,即便不划归南宋初年,至迟也不会到元代,其身份可能就是南宋临安书会中的才人。从《绿窗新话》特殊的编撰体例及《醉翁谈录》的相关记载可以断定,这一书为当时书会才人及说话人肄习材料和编写小说底本的重要书籍。故事的来源,杂考各书,注明出处的,共一百十四篇,部分失题书目经过考证可以指明的有二十八篇。全书内容观照社会现实,展现出各阶层人物的动态,相当一部分还反映了当时新兴阶层的动态以及社会特殊的风尚。《绿窗新话》中的故事,对当时及后世曲艺界的影响都是深广的。

Only two editions of New Words by the Green Window(Lüchuang Xinhua)can be seen in China's Mainland,i.e.,the Jiaye Hall edition in Wuxing,and the Dianyi Hall edition in Dehua.Its author,Master Huangdu Fengyue may have lived in the early years of Southern Song Dynasty,and certainly not later than the Yuan Dynasty.He was probably a scribe in a shuhui(aplace where scripts of folk arts are written or compiled)of Lin'an City.From the special style of the book's compilation and related records in Conversations with a Drunkard(Zuiweng Tanlu),it can be judged that the book contained important material for the storytellers and scribes to practice or redact novels.About the story's sources,there are 114 pieces with proper attribution,and 28 pieces whose lost titles can be given references by textual research.The content of the book contemplates social reality,shows behaviors of people from various classes,and a considerable part of it reflects the conditions of a newly arisen stratum and special social customs at that time.The stories in the book had a far-reaching influence on the folk art circles of the time and later periods.