诗歌典故与唐代小说的流传传播

Literary Allusion and the Spread of Chinese ClassicalNovels in the Tang Dynasty

唐代文言小说的流传传播手段比较单一,因此,唐人常常借助诗歌进行小说的流传传播,将小说故事用作诗歌典故就是其中最为突出的表现形式之一:一方面,它既向广大诗歌读者传达了小说的中心信息,同时又巧妙地打破了中国古代正统文人对小说的所谓的"君子弗为也,然亦弗灭也"、"扬雄所不观","宣尼所不语"的接受壁垒,标志着唐代诗人对小说文体的关注,这对于提高小说地位,加速小说文体特征的形成和小说文体的独立,促使小说由士大夫文人阶层走向广大平民百姓都是有重要意义的;另一方面,它也能丰富诗歌内容,增添诗歌情趣,活跃诗歌语言。

Since the spread of Chinese classical novels in the Tang Dynasty is carried out in a single media,the writers of that time made use of poetry to get them spread.The most prominent method was the application of allusions.By applying allusions,the essences of novels were conveyed,and more importantly,it broke a stagnate attitude that the traditional orthodox writers held toward novels,they believed that novels were not to be read by the literati.The existence of literary allusion in poetry signified an emerging state that novels were deserving more attentions from poets of the Tang Dynasty,which helped improve the status of novels,to accelerate the formation of novel's features,and to make the novels independent.It also promoted the transition that the novels were popularized instead of being monopolized by the group of literati.In addition, literary allusions enriched the contents of poetry, and added to its interest,and vivified the poetical language.