桃花意象隐喻下的乱世佳人--从息妫到香君的倾国之谶

Beauties in Chaotic Situation Who Are Metaphorized as the Image of Peach Blossom--Such as Xi Gui and Li Xiangjun's Stories about a Country's Destruction

桃花是中国古典文学中的常见意象,以之比喻美人是重要的文化现象。息妫、李香君等是文学史上典型的桃花美人,具有共通的文化内涵。作家在塑造她们的形象时,多以桃花之艳丽隐喻美人的相貌,以水流花谢转喻美人凋零的爱情,并借美人的一己悲剧命运讲述家国倾覆的故事,营构出桃花飘零与乱世倾国之间的隐喻关系。这种创作方式是因为作家受到家国同构的传统政治伦理观念的影响,且是桃花客观存在的特点被作家主观选择利用的结果。

Peach blossom is a common image in Chinese classical literature,and it is an important cultural phenomenon to use it as a metaphor for beauty.Xi Gui and Li Xiangjun are typical peach blossom beauties in liter-ary history,with common cultural connotations.When creating their images,writ-ers often use the gorgeous peach blossoms as metaphors for beauty's appear-ance,the flowing flowers as metaphors for beauty's withered love,and use.beauty's own tragic fate to tell the story of home and country's decline,thus creating a faint relationship between peach blossom's flling and troubled times.This way of writing is because the writer is influenced by the tradi-tional political ethics of isomorphism between home and country,and it is the result of the objective existence of peach blossom being subjectively select-ed and utilized by the writer.