论《聊斋志异》中的“士人从商”

On the Scholars' Doing Business in Liao Zhai Zhi Yi

蒲松龄在《聊斋》中积极鼓励士人“弃儒从商” ,但他仍持“右儒左商”的态度 ,“从商”的目的仅仅是士人为了摆脱自身的穷困 ,尔后重新实现“儒业”的理想。蒲松龄主张儒商在经商活动中不失“儒家品德” ,这无疑寄托着作者的理想。《聊斋》中对“儒商”的致富过程叙述过于简略 ,看不到“儒家品德”在其中所起的作用 。

Although Pu Songling advocated that scholars could give up academic research for commerce in Liao Zhai Zhi Yi, he still preferred Confucianism to commerce, for his real aim was to let scholars free themselves from poverty by doing business, and then they could promote Confucianism. Additionally, Pu Songling maintained that Confucian businessmen should keep their 'Confucian Quality' when doing business, which actually benefited their business activities somehow according to historical facts. But the description of how Confucian businessmen got rich was too simple in Liao Zhai Zhi Yi to see how much of 'Confucian Quality' could take effect during the commercial process. This is because Pu Songling had put all his life into the imperial examinations and hadnt much access to the complicated commercial world.