现实与幻境——《水浒传》梦境描写的文化现象

Reality and Dreamland——Cultural Phenomena in Dcscribing Dreamland of 《The Water Margin》

《水浒传》是中国古典长篇小说中写梦较多的作品之一 ,而其中宋江的三个梦普遍被认为怪异离奇、荒诞不经 ,特别是“遇九天玄女”的梦更是如此。如果我们从梦文化的角度去考察 ,便会发现这是在佛教的基础上 ,折射出的中国文化和印度文化的融合 ,为读者传递了丰富多彩。

禩he Water Margin》 is one of Chinese classic saga novelswhich describes more dreams, in witch the three dreams of Song Jiang aregenerally believed to be monstrous and false, especially his dream of'meeting th e fairy in the Ninth Heaven'. If we investigate it from the angleof dream culture, we can find that this, on the basis of Buddhism, reflects themixture between Chinese culture and Indian culture and it provides readerswith rich and condensed information of dream culture.