论《金瓶梅》中的节日叙写及其小说史意义

Narration of Festivals in Jinpingmei:Its Significance in the History of Novels

与明代节日生活相映照,《金瓶梅》主要叙写了诸如社会交往、祭祖礼神和娱乐狂欢等节日民俗生活内容,它们表现出家庭化、形骸化和浓厚的食色倾向。在艺术上,《金瓶梅》的叙述者运用"在场"与"缺位"的艺术手法,发掘节日的象征意蕴,并通过"反复"与"不平衡"手法揭示人物及其家庭的变化。《金瓶梅》的节日叙写在小说史上并非孤立的存在,它是对"先例"的继承与发展,并形成了一些叙写的范式,对其后的小说创作产生深刻影响。它也是我们从局部审视小说史变迁的一个窗口。

As a mirror of the festival life of the Ming Dynasty,Jinpingmei mainly describes the festival life in social interaction,god-worship and entertainments.This exhibits a strong tendency of family orientation,skeletonization and sexuality.In art,by using the technique ofpresence ＂andabsence＂ of the narrator,Jinpingmei explores the meaning of festival symbols;and throughrepetition ＂andunbalanced＂,it reveals the change of characters and their families.Narration of festivals in Jinpingmei is not the only one in the history of novels,it is an inheritance and development of itsprecedent ＂,thus forms a number of writingparadigms.＂ Since it has a profound influence on the writing of later novels,it is a window for us to examine the history of novel changes.