《水浒传》中的“血腥描写”及其文化阐释

The Literature Description of Brutal Scenes in Water Margin and its Cultural Interpretation

《水浒传》是我国四大名著之一,是描写封建农民起义的长篇小说。小说讲述了北宋末年以宋江为首的一百零八位好汉梁山聚义后,被招安,为朝廷征战的故事。小说中的人物刻画、情节铺排以及内在文化、社会意义,都已有各种解读,其中的暴力武学描写也引起了学者的关注,它的艺术作用和美学意义对小说来说也是比较独特的存在。

Water Margin is one of the four great literature classics in China. It is a novel describing the feudal peasant uprising. The novel tells the story of a hundred and eight heroes led by SONG, Jiang in the last years of the Northern Song Dynasty. The heroes were recruited to fight for the imperial court. The characters and the plot in the novel are well studies in view of their cultural or social meaning, and the violence described in the novel calls attention of the scholars. The description of violence, especially the one of the brutal scenes has specific aesthetic and artistic role in the novel.