天香园里的女性芬芳——王安忆《天香》的女性书写

The Fragrance of Women in Tian Xiang Garden--Female Wnting of Tan X1ang by Wang Any1

王安忆的长篇小说《天香》书写明朝晚期上海申府天香园的故事,其中最引人瞩目的是对天香园中女性人物的描绘。她们个性鲜明,多有较好的文化素养和一定的书画才情。在几代女性的手中,共同发展了独具特色的刺绣艺术——天香园绣,其中饱含个人情感和生命体验,并融入了诗画内涵。在男权社会背景下,这些女性结成坚固的女性同盟,抵御人生困境。她们具有强烈的自尊和独立意识,力求摆脱传统社会女性的依附性,以刺绣作为自己安身立命之本,并承担起家庭的经济重任。在刺绣艺术从闺阁走向民间的过程中,天香园的女性绽放耀眼的生命之光。

Wang Anyi's novel Tian Xiang describes the story of Tianxiang Gar-den of Shenfu in Shanghai in the late Qing dynasty period,among which the most remarkable is the depiction of the female characters in the gar-den.They have good cultural literacy and certain calligraphy and painting tal-ents,and have distinctive personality.In the hands of several generations of women,1 unique embroidery art was developed together--Tianxiang Garden Embroidery,which is full of personal feelings and life experience,and integrat-ed into the connotation of poetry and painting.In the patriarchal society,some women form strong female:alliances to resist life diffculties.Some wom-en have strong self-esteem and independent consciousness,do one's best to cast off the attachment of traditional society female,regard oneself as the one who establishes a life with embroidery,assume the economic heavy respon-sibility of the family.In the process that embroidery art moves from bou-doir to folk,the female of Tianxiang Garden blossoms the light of dazzling life.