是指明代五本著名传奇小说集的合称,“三言”即《喻世明言》、《警世通言》、《醒世恒言》的合称。作者为明代冯梦龙。“二拍”则是中国拟话本小说集《初刻拍案惊奇》和《二刻拍案惊奇》的合称。作者凌蒙初。
三言
冯梦龙编的“三言”,是《喻世明言》《警世通言》《醒世恒言》三部小说集的总称。《喻世明言》亦称《古今小说》,但“古今小说”实为“三言”的通称。
“三言”每集40篇,共120篇。分别刊于天启元年(1621)前后、天启四年(1624)、七年(1627)。这些作品有的是辑录了宋元明以来的旧本,但一般都做了不同程度的修改;也有的是据文言笔记、传奇小说、戏曲、历史故事,乃至社会传闻再创作而成,故“三言”包容了旧本的汇辑和新著的创作,是我国白话短篇小说在说唱艺术的基础上,经过文人的整理加工到文人进行独立创作的开始。它“极摹人情世态之歧,备写悲欢离合之致”(笑花主人《今古奇观序》),是宋元明三代最重要的一部白话短篇小说的总集。它的出现,标志着古代白话短篇小说整理和创作高潮的到来。
二拍
在“三言”的影响下,凌蒙初编著了《初刻拍案惊奇》(刊于1628年)和《二刻拍案惊奇》(刊于1632年)各40卷,人称“二拍”。凌蒙蒙初(1580—1644),字玄房,号初成,别号即空观主人,乌程(今浙江吴兴)人。18岁补廪膳生,后科场一直不利。55岁时,以优贡授上海县丞,后擢徐州通判并分署房村。崇祯十七年(1644),李自成部进逼徐州,忧愤而死。他一生著述甚多,而以“二拍” 最有名。“二拍”与“三言”不同,基本上都是个人创作,“取古今来杂碎事可新听睹、佐谈谐者,演而畅之”(《二刻拍案惊奇小引》)。它已经是一部个人的白话小说创作专集。“卷帙浩繁,观览难周”(笑花主人《今古奇观序》),故从中选取40种成《今古奇观》。后三百年中,它就成为一部流传最广的白话短篇小说的选本。
三言中每一章都讲了一个道理,但有的章节秽语甚多,而有的则故事情节引人入胜,比如《醒世恒言》中有一章《卖油郎独占花魁》讲了油郎秦重寻父、花魁娘子寻夫从良过程中两人从相识到相爱的美好故事。
“ 三言”所收录的作品,无论是宋元旧篇,还是明代新作和冯梦龙拟作,都程度不同地经过冯梦龙增删和润饰。这些作品,题材广泛,内容复杂。有对封建官僚丑恶的谴责和对正直官吏德行的赞扬,有对友谊、爱情的歌颂和对背信弃义、负心行为的斥责。更值得注意的,有不少作品描写了市井百姓的生活。如《施润泽滩阙遇友》、《蒋兴哥重会珍珠衫》、《杜十娘怒沉百宝箱》、《卖油郎独占花魁》等。在这些作品里,强调人的感情和人的价值应该得到尊重,所宣扬的道德标准、婚姻原则,与封建礼教、传统观念是相违悖的。这是充满生命活力的市民思想意识的体现。“三言”中的优秀作品,既重视故事完整,情节曲折和细节丰富,又调动了多种表现手段,刻画人物性格。它的刊行,推动了短篇小说的发展和繁荣,标志着中国短篇白话小说的民族风格和特点已经形成。
“二拍”的有些作品反映了市民生活和他们的思想意识。如《转运汉遇巧洞庭红》写商人泛海经商事,可以看出明末商人们追求钱财的强烈欲望。《乌将军一饭必酬》、《叠居奇程客得助》等重视商业描写,在以往的短篇小说中非常罕见。有些作品提出在爱情婚姻生活中要求男女平等的观点。如《李将军错认舅》,描写了刘翠翠和金定忠贞不渝的爱情。先是翠翠迫使父母放弃“门当户对”的习俗陈规而和金定结合,后翠翠被李将军虏去作妾,金定又历尽艰辛,终于找到了翠翠。但迫于将军权势,不得以夫妻相认,最后以双双殉情来表示他们之间的至死不渝的感情。“二拍”善于组织情节,因此多数篇章有一定的吸引力,语言也较生动。但从总的艺术魅力来说,它比“三言”差得多。
Refers to the famous Ming Dynasty Legends five sets collectively, the "three words" that "Yu Shiming Yan", "Jingshitongyan", "Awaken the common saying" the collectively. The author is Ming Feng Meng. "Amazing Stories" is telling in this novel set in China, "first moment of surprises," and the "moment of surprises" and collectively. On the early Ling Meng. Three Words Feng Meng-long series of "Three Words" and "Yu Shiming Words" and "Jingshitongyan" "Awaken common saying" the three novels set in general. "Yu Shiming words," also known as "ancient and modern fiction," but "ancient and modern fiction" is actually "three words" the generic term. Amazing Stories Three words in each chapter tells a truth, but some sections of offensive language are many, while others fascinating story, such as "Awaken the common saying" a chapter in "exclusive courtesan oil merchant" about the heavy oil Lang Qin Looking for Father, courtesan lady looks for her husband during the two from the good from acquaintance to love the good stories. "Three Words" by your work, whether old papers Song or the Ming and Feng Meng intended for new work, both additions and deletions in varying degrees through Feng Meng and retouching. These works varied, and complexity. A condemnation of the feudal and bureaucratic integrity ugly officials praised virtue, there are about friendship, love, praise and treachery, betrayal act of rebuke. More noteworthy, a number of works depicted the lives of the people marketplace. Such as "Que Tan Shi Runze case of" Friends, "the Spatial weight will Zhenzhu Shan Brother", "Du Shiniang", "exclusive courtesan oil merchant" and so on. In these works, the emphasis on human feelings and human values should be respected, for a moral standard, the principle of marriage, and the feudal ethical code, runs counter to the traditional notion. It is full of vigor and vitality of the public manifestation of ideology. "Three words" in good works, not only to complete the story, plot twists and details of the rich, the mobilization of a variety of means of expression, characterization Characters in. It is the published, promoted the development and prosperity of short stories, marked the vernacular short fiction has become the national style and features.
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