论《雨花香》《通天乐》的善书属性——兼论清代劝善小说的创作

On Attributes of Yu Hua Xiang and Tong Tian Le as the Morality Books Based on the Creation of Novels of Morality Books in the Qing Dynasty

清初石成金的劝善小说《雨花香》和《通天乐》无论从创作动机,还是从文体和内容上来看,都与拟话本小说显现出较大差异,而与清代的善书和劝善文化紧密相关。以《跻春台》为代表的宣讲小说则体现了劝善小说在清中后期劝善文化背景下的进一步发展。因此,将这些作品纳入善书的范畴进行观照可能更加接近历史的真实,由此展开的评价可能才更为公允。

Yu Hua Xiang and Tong Tian Le which as novels of morality books written by Shi Chengjin in the early Qing Dynasty showed large differences from the simulating vernacular novels in the matter of creative motivation,literary form and content.However,the collection of those two works were closely related to morality books and the culture of moral cultivation.The preachy novels that represented by Ji Chun Tai reflected further development of novels of morality books in the background of the culture of moral cultivation in the middle and late Qing Dynasty.Therefore,it may be closer to the reality of history by incorporating those works into the scope of morality books.