从幽冥故事看士大夫的社交模式与知识探讨——以乾嘉时期的两部志怪为中心

On Scholar-officials’ Social Mode and Their Intellectual Inquiry Reflected in the Ghost Stories——Based on the Two Mystery Novels in the Period of Qianlong and Jiaqing

纪昀的《阅微草堂笔记》和袁枚的《子不语》是乾嘉时期极有影响的两部志怪作品,其中的故事大都来自于士大夫之间的闲谈。通过把它们放入一个跨阶层社交脉络中,重建这些故事被传述的情境和路径,可以看到,不同的交流方式影响了人们对故事内容的判断,而“讲故事”这种行为本身,就是一种知识探索的过程。

Ji Yun s Notes on Yuewei Cottage and Yuan Mei s Zibuyu are two influential mystery novels in the period of Qianlong and Jiaqing. Most of the stories in the two works come from the chat between the scholar-officials. Putting these stories into a cross-strata context to reconstruct the situation and the path in which these stories are told,we can recognize that different ways of communication affect people s judgment of the content of the story and the act of “storytelling” itself is a process of knowledge exploration.