唐传奇中的“洞庭”书写及楚文化渊源

On the Writing about Dongting Lake in Tang Legends and the Origin of Chu Culture

洞庭湖是唐传奇故事中重要的发生地,以洞庭湖为表现背景的作品可按题材划分为湖中异境、鬼魅精怪、人神相恋三类。“异境”题材展现了洞庭仙境的神性与理想性,“精怪”题材演绎着洞庭神怪的两面性与人情,“爱情”题材传颂着或喜或悲的爱情神话。虽然三种故事类型的内容不同,但从文化渊源上看,楚文化的山水人文、神明信仰、道家哲思、屈骚文学等是构建这些洞庭传奇文本的文化基石,洞庭传奇的故事类型与楚文化之间的渊源深厚。

Dongting Lake is an important place in the legendary stories of Tang Dynasty.Tang legends about Dongting Lake can be divided into three categories according to the subject matter:the strange land in the lake,the monsters and spirits,and the love between man and goddess.The theme of“strange land”shows the divinity and ideality of Dongting Lake;the theme of“monsters and spirits”interprets the duality and human nature of Dongting monsters;and the subject matters of“love”conveys the love myth of joy or sorrow.Although the contents of the three types of stories are different,from the perspective of cultural origin,the Chu culture of geography human landscape,spirit belief,Taoist philosophy,Qusao literature,are the cultural foundation for the construction of these Dongting legend texts.The story types of Dongting legends have a deep origin with Chu culture.