明清乌有园记的书写策略与意义探寻

The Writing Strategy and Significance of Utopian Garden Narration in Ming and Qing Dynasties

明清时期出现的乌有园记是一类独特的园记文,其以园记散文的形式描绘作者想象虚构的纸上园林。乌有园林的命名寄意幽远,或点明"虚幻"、"乌有"等价值意义,或直陈园主的精神意旨,体现出园主的自我意志与理想愿景。园记借主客问答的形式叩问园林的历史存在与传承,从而形成"无园的焦虑——园林存在的思考——乌有园林的价值——乌有园记的价值"这一层层深入的书写策略,最终达至对乌有园林书写意义的肯定。乌有园记透露出作者对自我价值以冀永恒的期盼,具有重要的文本意义与文化价值。

The narration of utopian gardens in Ming and Qing dynasties is a unique prose depicting imaginary gardens on paper. The naming of utopian gardens is well-wrought in the sense of either clarifying the value and significance of ＂illusoriness＂ and ＂nothingness＂ or indicating the garden owner＇s spiritual intention, thus reflecting the garden owner＇ s self-will and ideal vision. By surveying the garden history as well as its existence and inherit- ance in the form of questions and answers between the host and the guest, the utopian garden narration has devel- oped the layer-upon-layer profound writing strategy of the process from ＂the initial anxiety over no gardens through reflections on the garden existence to the value of utopian gardens to the value of utopian garden narration in the end＂. The utopian garden narration is of important textual writer＇ s anticipation of eternalizing his or her self-value. significance and cultural value because it can reveal the