当代武侠小说侠隐结局的人类学考察——以金庸武侠为例

An Anthropological Investigation into the Contemporary Martial Arts Fiction that End with Its Heroes Turning into Hermits,based on the Martial Arts Novels by Jin Yong(Louis Cha)

当代中国武侠小说中大侠的命运结局展现出惊人的一致性,在归隐与死亡的宿命中体现出一种独特的审美齐一化。然而这种独特的归隐宿命并不常见于更早期文本中的侠客,他们不仅可以建功立业追随王权,也可以功成名就娶妻生子。归隐或死亡的宿命归结于江湖世界的独立本体化。而身处其中的大侠也由草莽一跃而成为权力肩负者。身处独立江湖的侠客拥有了早期神话和史诗中神祗和英雄的特征及其使命,大侠必须以武功为手段行使他们安定江湖世界的伟大职责,最后以死亡或归隐的方式完成这一职责。

Heroes in contemporary Chinese martial arts fiction, surprisingly, meet with the same fate in that there is a unique aesthetic sameness in their turning into hermits and ending in death despite the fact that such unique hermitage and death are not normally seen with the heroes in the early texts as they are not only able to achieve success and follow the royalty but can also marry with kids after they achieve success, with hermitage or death attributable to the independent identification of the river-lake world, in which the heroes become the carriers of power from the bandits. When the knight-errants situated in the independent rivers and lakes are characterized by the qualities of the deities and heroes in the early myths, they have to perform the great duties of achieving peace in the rivers and lakes by dint of martial arts skills, completing such deeds either in death or in hermitage.