敦煌变文新论  

A New Explanation about the"Bian Wen"of Dunhuang

作　　者：陈海涛[1] 

机构地区：[1]兰州大学历史系

出　　处：《敦煌研究》1994年第1期64-70,共7页Dunhuang Research

摘　　要：敦煌变文新论陈海涛（兰州大学历史系）敦煌遗书中被人们称之为“变文”的俗文学作品，最先引起中外研究者的广泛注意，由此引发的争论也最为激烈。正如美国学者梅维恒所说：“我一接触变文这门学问，便吃惊地发现尽管变文极其重要，但几乎在有关变文的各个方面，都存在着...he'Bian Wen 'of Dunhuang is always an important subject for Dunhuangstudies,which has continued to draw attention of many scholars and great progress hasbeen made recently,However until now,many basic problems still had not been solved.What the”Bian Wen'is,in fact,is still very confused.I think that this phenomenon is aresult that many scholars used to have a false theory about to guard their studies. Previ-ously,scholars always thought”Bian Wen'was a kind of literary form,that was foundexisting exactly during the stage of folk literature in the period of the Sui and Tang Dynasties. But I found ,that the works of the”Bian Wen”themselves have manv dif-ferences in creative methods and revealing appearences each other. So we can not saythat these works of”Bian Wen”belong to a same kind of literary form. On these sur-roundings,I think that the reason why during these years,problems such as what is the“Bian Wen”is still confused. After a careful investigation,the conclusion can be reachedthat in fact the”Bian Wen”is not a certain kind of literary form at all,it is only a cre-ative method,which was also used in mant kinds of later folk lihteratures,Of course.thiskind of creative method was extensively used in the period of the Sui and Tang Dynas-ties,this is the reason why we can find many works of such literature in Dunhuang em-ploying this method.On the other hand,this kind of method still takes a very importantrole in folk literature afterwards,not only in the”Bian Wen”of Dunhuang.

关 键 词：敦煌变文 降魔变文 “变” 敦煌遗书 敦煌文学 讲经文 王重民 《汉将王陵变》 《舜子变》 文学作品 

分 类 号：I207.7[文学—中国文学]