《三国演义》“武乡侯骂死王朗”情节新论

The Authoritative Denunciation in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms

《三国演义》中“武乡侯骂死王朗”的情节,反映出明清小说中皇权的规训及其非理性特征。这种反智的规训是明清小说所代表的民间意识形态在中国前现代化阶段的一种转变,它表明专制皇权的存在缺乏法理与逻辑的合理性,无法有效应对逻辑缺失带来的挑战,权力只能通过政治高压和反智的道德训诫来掩盖其脆弱的实质。

In The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Zhu Ge Liang, the mastermind denounced Wang Lang, a traitor of the Han Dynasty at the front line of war so furiously that he could not stand the humiliation and died of a heart attack. It is a reflection of the imperial discipline and irrational features of political power in the novels of Ming and Qing Dynasties. This anti-intellectual discipline is a transformation of the folk ideology represented by the novels of Ming and Qing Dynasties in the premodernization stage of China. It shows that the existence of authoritarian imperial power lacks the rationality of jurisprudence and logic, which cannot effectively cope with the challenges brought about by the lack of logic. The fragile essence of power can only be covered up by its political suppression and anti-ntellectual moral admonishment.