“范张故事”明代改写下的疫病文化探析

An Analysis of Epidemic Culture from the Adapted The Story of Fan and Zhang in the Ming Dynasty

“范张故事”主要歌颂东汉范式与张劭死生相交的友谊,自东汉末年起广为流传,各类体裁的文学作品中都有丰富的记载。“范张故事”自明代前后发生了主角由染病至染疫的转变,这一情节的改编与明代疫情的频发有关,从人们对疫情的认识、医疗救助方面可窥明代社会下的疫病文化。

The Story of Fan and Zhang,which has been widespread and widely recorded in literary works of various genres since the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty,mainly praises the friendship in life and death between Fan Shi and Zhang Shao in the Eastern Han Dynasty.Since around the Ming Dynasty,the plot of The Story of Fan and Zhang has undergone transformation from the protagonist getting ill to him being infected with epidemic disease due to the frequent outbreak of epidemic in the Ming Dynasty.The epidemic culture in the Ming Dynasty society can be glimpsed from people’s understanding of the epidemic situation and medical assistance.