晚清笔记小说《见闻随笔》考述

A Study on the Literary Sketches Jianwen Suibi of the Late Qing Dynasty

在晚清前所未有的大变局中,许多服膺儒家仁义思想的文人学者开始有意识地撰写笔记小说,期望借助文字的力量明道淑世、敦风化俗。齐学裘在同治年间所撰《见闻随笔》二十六卷顺应了这股潮流,其承袭纪昀《阅微草堂笔记》一类小说余绪,随笔札记,间发议论,呈现出明显的劝善惩恶旨意。就全书内容而言,《见闻随笔》涉及面较广,保留了不少可供利用的史料,多数条目记载了讲述者等来源情况,有的还明确了相关事件的发生时间,具有较高的文献价值,其编纂流传过程也有一定的代表性,值得探讨。

In the late Qing Dynasty,with dramatic changes in society,the literati who identified with Confucianism committed to improve the social environment,so they started to write literary sketches consciously.One of them was Qi Xueqiu,the writer of Jianwen Suibi of twenty-six volumes.He followed that trend and wrote a large number of short stories about good and evil,sometimes he made comments to warn the readers,like Ji Yun's Yueweicaotang Biji.In terms of the contents of Jianwen Suibi,it includes many historical materials,which make this book valuable.Moreover,the edit and circulation of this book has a certain representative,which makes it worth to be discussed.