汪曾祺乡土小说中植物意象的审美性

Aesthetics of Plant Image in Wang Zeng-qi’s Local Novels

植物意象有着丰富的意蕴内涵,为历代文人所喜爱。汪曾祺乡土小说中的植物意象是作者思想情感表达的载体,具有丰富涵义和价值,富有情意性、生命力和生活味。汪曾祺的乡土小说通过植物意象来展现环境美、风俗美和人情美的审美意蕴,这种对植物意象的乡土情结和审美追求始于他童年时期地域背景熏染和家庭环境熏陶,成于青年时期师承沈从文,终于个人审美自觉,最后借文学之笔构造的植物王国表达出来。汪曾祺在乡土小说中大量书写植物之美,给当下人与自然如何共生提供经验。

The plant image has rich implications and is loved by literati of all dynasties.The plant images in Wang Zeng-qi’s local novels,as carriers with which the author expresses his thoughts and emotions,have rich meanings and values and are full of emotion,life force and life flavors.Wang Zeng-qi’s local novels show the aesthetic implication of environmental beauty,customary beauty and emotional beauty through plant images.This kind of local complex and aesthetic pursuit of plant images began from his being influenced by the local background and family environment in his childhood,formed in his youth when he studied under Shen Cong-wen,later became his own personal aesthetic consciousness,and finally was expressed by the plant kingdom constructed by literature.The beauty of plants is written extensively in Wang Zeng-qi’s local novels,thus providing experience for how man and nature coexist at present.