童声童趣:晚清儿童的游戏及其乐趣——以回忆史料为中心的考察

Children’s Voice and Fun:Children’s Game and Fun in the Late Qing Dynasty——An Investigation Centered on Memoirs

游戏是儿童乐趣的重要来源,传统社会中游戏的乐趣多被成人表述所掩盖。文章利用形成于民国、共和国时期的回忆史料,最大程度上贴近晚清儿童的表述,呈现晚清儿童的游戏:玩玩具与自制玩具、与成人一起游戏、恶作剧与顽皮等。时代的变革,使原被压抑在成人世界话语中的儿童游戏乐趣得以表达,通过游戏,儿童建构了属于自己的游戏世界,也体验到了属于自己的乐趣,虽然这一乐趣往往处在成人世界的干预之下。

Game is an important source of the fun of children,but that fun was mostly concealed by adult expression in traditional society.By using memoirs formed in the period of PRC and the Republic of China,this paper closes to the expression of children to the greatest extent and presents children s games in the late Qing Dynasty:playing with toys and self-made toys,playing with adults,pranks and naughty,etc.The change of social background in the late Qing and Republic of China made it possible for children to express the fun of game which was concealed by adult discourse.By playing games,children constructed their own game world and experienced their own fun,although this fun was often under the intervention of the adult world.