唐人小说中的妇女性爱:小说家营造的心理态势

The Sexual Love of Women in the Tang Novels: A Psychological State Made by Novelists

唐代妇女性爱生活丰富,且为唐人小说的一大主题。现实中的妇女性爱放荡、混乱,小说以偷情、私奔方式表现出来,没有抹去现实生活的痕迹。唐人小说的特点为,言情而不淫,纵情而不乱,极大地提高了现实生活水平,使文本的表现方式得以升华。这其中包含着小说家们丰富的心理因素。唐代文人多遭门阀婚姻之苦,既有感于世风开放,极力寻求性爱伙伴,又深受传统礼教熏染,要求性爱对方绝对纯真圣洁。于是,现实中妇女性爱放荡、混乱的状况,便被提高到了一个新视点。如此,既满足了文人的性爱生活,又相应解除了其失败婚姻之苦,也不丢面子。此乃纯属小说家营造的性爱心理态势。

The life of sexual love of women in the Tang Dynasty was rich and also a big theme in the Tang novels. In reality, women were debauched and confused. Their clamorous life is displayed through carrying on a clandestine love affair and elopement, but some marks of real life remain. The Tang novels are characteristic of love without lasciviousness and confusion, greatly raising the level of real life. The expressive way of novels has got improved. The rich mental factors of novelists were put into it. The men of letters in the Tang Dynasty suffered from their marriages. They were moved by the social conditions and tried their best to seek sexual companions. At the same time, they asked for pure women for they were absorbed in traditional rites and education. So women in debauch and confusion are raised to a higher levelin their novels. In this way, these men of letters were pleased with their sexual love and escaped their sufferings of marriages. It seemed that they saved their faces. It is the men of letters that made these mental factors.