从文言小说类书看宋人小说观念

The General Reference Books of Classical Chinese Fictions in the Song Dynasty and Their Concepts of Fiction

宋代先后出现18部文言小说类书,通过这些类书的收录篇目、分类标准以及编者自序中的阐述等,可以了解到当时人们尚未形成明确的小说文体观念,因而也无法对小说按体分类;宋人编纂文言小说类书的主要动机是助教化、增见闻和供消遣,尤其注重前二者,反映了他们对小说功能的认识。

Eighteen classical Chinese reference books were produced successively in the Song Dynasty.Through their table of contents,classification standards and editor’s preface,we know that people at that time had not formed a clear concept of novel style yet,nor did they have the consciousness of novel types.The motivation of compiling of these classical Chinese fictions are to educate people,to increase knowledge and for recreation.They especially payed attention to the first and the second motivation,which reflect their understanding of fiction functions.