关于《花笺记》成书和评点者的几个问题

A Few Questions about the Completion and Reviewers of HuaJianJi

《花笺记》五卷是明代后期粤语说唱文学的代表作,其文体近乎“歌本小说”。它的创作年份,当在《牡丹亭》面世并广为流传之后。主要作者有两位,第一位才气和水平较高,创作了前四卷;后一位则稍逊,创作了第五卷。另有一个或数个“赝手”改窜和涂抹了作品。清初钟映雪是这部作品的评点者,其身世和情性虽久未为人所知,但在评点文字中,仍可见出其科场“数奇不遇”和爱情遭挫的坎坷命运以及出众的才名。钟氏有感于《花笺记》“为人所易而忽之”的遭遇,通过挖掘和提炼作品的“文心”“手法”诸要素,抉发出作品埋藏于平浅词文下的“极深、极曲、极奇、极妙之处”。钟氏的评点贡献,使自己确立了“第一个重视弹词的人,第一个重视粤曲的人”的历史地位。

The five volumes of HuaJianJi(The Flowery Scroll)are the representative works of Cantonese rap literature in the late Ming Dynasty,and its style is almost“song novels”.The year of its creation is at least after the publication and widespread circulation of The Peony Pavilion.There are two main authors:The first who possesses exceptional talent and skills created the first four volumes,and the latter who is less talented wrote the fifth volume.After that,one or more counterfeiters altered and smeared the work.Zhong Yingxue was one of the reviewers of this book in the early Qing Dynasty.Although his life experience and temperament have not been known for a long time,from his reviews,one can still see his failures in imperial examinations,his bumpy fate of love frustration and his outstanding talent.Inspired by the encounter of“being altered and neglected”in HuaJianJi,Zhong excavated and refined the“literary mind”and“technique”of the work,thereby revealing its“extremely deep,extremely intricate,extremely extraordinary,and extremely wonderful”features buried under the plain words.Zhong’s contributions on reviewing the book have established himself as“the first person to attach importance to Tanci,and the first person to attach importance to Cantonese Opera”.