从历史地理的视角释读颜文姜孝妇故事文本

An Interpretation of Yan Wenjiang's Story Texts of Female Filial Piety from the Perspective of Historical Geography

颜文姜孝妇故事源远流长,在鲁中及周边地区有着重要的影响,其文本形成与演变的内在逻辑耐人寻味。从梳理故事文本入手,从历史地理的视角加以深入释读,我们可以发现其中的诸多规则,故事的发生地域皆为各个时期的文化发达区域或儒学氛围浓厚的地区,故事发生年代都处于儒学兴盛或复兴的历史阶段,而故事发生地域的变动路径则与两汉至明清时期相关区域的交通格局高度契合;同时,故事文本地位的上升,颜文姜由人到神的变化,朝廷、士大夫、民众对故事的不同关注角度,则反映出北宋前后政治与社会的重大转变。小故事折射大历史,通过对故事文本的充分释读,文史结合,方可进一步理解孝妇故事的丰富内涵。

Yan Wenjiang＇ s stories of female filial piety story has a long history and exerts an important influence on the central regions of Shandong Province and its surrounding areas. The inner logic of the formation and evolution of these story texts is thought-provoking. To start with combing the story texts and from the perspective of historical geography, many rules could be found. Firstly, the re- gions where the stories happened were all culture-developed areas in different periods or areas with strong Confucian atmosphere. Secondly, the times when the stories occurred were all Confucianismflourishing or rejuvenation periods. Thirdly, the change path of the regions where the stories happened was highly in accord with the regional traffic and geographic pattern in the historical periods from the Han to the Ming and Qing Dynasties. And at the same time, the rise of the status of the story texts, the changes of Yah Wenjiang from a man to God, the different angles of attention to the story from the court, the scholar-bureaucrat and the common people revealed the obvious changes of the political system and social structure before and after the Northern Song Dynasty. Small stories reflect big history. Only through the full interpretation of the story texts and the combination of literature and history could authors further understand the rich connotation of the stories.