《聊斋志异》中的历史印记

History Imprint of Liaozhaizhiyi

张友鹤辑校的《聊斋志异会校会注会评本》共收录文言短篇小说491篇,其中一些作品折射着历史的影子。这些作品虽非记载史实,但它具体、生动、形象地记述了历史上曾经的人和事,它既可补史,亦可证史,颇具史学价值或文献价值。作者对现实人生的关注使其作品中含蕴着诸多时代的音讯,通过这类作品,既可反观蒲松龄民胞物与、痌鳏在怀的士子情怀,亦可探寻那个社会的足迹,倾听那个时代的跫音。这类小说既有文学审美价值,又有历史见证价值,彰显了小说与历史之间复杂微妙的关系。

Zhang Youhe＇ s Liaozhaizhiyi Huijiao Huizhu Huipingben contains a total of 491 classical short stories,there are some works with a history of shadow among of them. These works do not record history, but they specifically, vividly chronicles the history, once the people and things, they can repair the history, also prove that history, have rather historical value and literature value. The author pays close attention to the realistic life that encompassed in the works with many times thereafter,through this kind of work,Pu Songling＇ s attention to mankind and literati feelings can be in contrast, but also explore the footprint of the society, this kind of novel has both literary and aesthetic value, and historical value of testimony. Thus the relationships between novel and history are complex and subtle.