唐代剑侠:武侠的仙道化

The Chivalrous Swordsman in Tang Dynasty: Taoism of Swordsmen

剑侠是古代游侠中的一个类型,是游侠、刺客、盗俠中的佼佼者。他们既具备刚烈的气质和决死的精神,也拥有精妙入神的剑术,二者互相辉映,相辅相成,构成其超越的人格形象。唐代的武侠小说,写得最好的是剑侠小说,这类小说中最具代表性的形象是著名的传奇作家裴铏《聂隐娘》中的聂隐娘、《昆仑奴》中的磨勒和袁郊《甘泽谣》中的红线等。这些人物形象表明,剑侠首先是仙道与侠义结合的产物,同时是文学想象的极致,对后代武侠小说的创作发生过极大的作用。

Swordsman is a type of ancient paladins, and is the top among paladin, assassinator and theft. They both have a strong tem- perament and dare - to - die spirit, also has exquisite superb Swordsmanship, which are interrelated, adding to each other＇ s splendors and constitutes the transcendental personality image. Among the swordsman novels in Tang Dynasty, knight - errant is the best written. The representative images of this type of novels are Nie Yin - niang in Nie Yinniang, Mole in Kunlun Nu by the famous legend writer Pei Xing and Hongxian in Gartze Yao by the famous legend writer Yuan Jiao. Such figures show that knight errant is the combination of Taosim and errantry, and meanwhile is the perfection of literary imagination. It has great effect to the creation of martial arts novels of later generations.