最小也是最大的道德劝惩者——《红楼梦》中巧姐形象的文化意蕴探讨

Moral Exhorter from Both the Smallest and the Biggest Angles——A Discussion on Cultural Connotations of Qiaojie in The Story of the Stone

巧姐是小说《红楼梦》中金陵十二钗的重要一员,她是作者曹雪芹重点描述的十二名女子之一。《红楼梦》是作者经历过十几次删改、投入了一生心血著出的小说,巧姐这一人物绝不是作者随便设计了又在作品中随便敷衍过去的角色。巧姐这一人物形象的塑造,有着特殊的人物设计方法,这一角色背后透露着特殊的文化意蕴——"最小也是最大的道德劝惩者"。

Qiaojie, an important role of Twelve Beauties of Jinling in The Story of the Stone, is one of the twelvewomen given much more details by the author Cao Xue-qin. Considering that this novel is revised a dozen times be-fore finalized and the author devotes his whole life to it, we don＇ t think the character is designed mindlessly andjust skimmed and described roughly. Qiaojie, whose image-shaping is designed specially, reveals some special cul-tural connotations, namely, the moral exhorter from both the smallest and biggest angles.