略论明清艳情文学繁荣的历史原因  

Briefly on Historical Causes of Booming Erotic Literature in the Ming and Qing Dynasties

作　　者：李荣新[1] 

机构地区：[1]哈尔滨金融学院基础教研部,哈尔滨150030

出　　处：《学术交流》2012年第7期181-185,共5页Academic Exchange

摘　　要：明中叶后,性与艳情成为文学创作的热门话题,不仅小说中时有体现,戏曲亦是如此。该现象的产生,一方面是随着资本主义萌芽的出现,城镇特别是江南一带进一步繁荣,市井文化需求旺盛,奢侈相夸、宣淫成趣,已成为当时的生活时尚。文学创作来源于社会生活,文学作品写性写艳情盛行,正是基于这种现象普遍存在于时人的现实生活中。明中叶后文艺创作中盛行写性写艳情,还有其思想理论基础。以发端于阳明心学、大成于李贽"童心说"而建立起来的自然人性论的蓬勃兴起,把包括"色"与"艳情"在内的人欲,提升到了超出以往、天然合理的理性高度,进而更将其纳入到自然天成的审美范畴。按照此种理论,人的自然欲求,不仅不能限制,而且是天然合理的。故此,艳情文学是那个时代社会风貌的展现与缩影,更是那个时代精神理念的衍生与表象。In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, especially in the middle and late periods of the Ming Dynasty, sex and erotic had become a hot theme in literary creation. These themes were presented either in novel or in drama. The phenomenon emerged with the bud of capitalism at that time, the prosperity of cities and towns along the south of the Yangtse River, the flourishing demands for civil culture and the prevailing trend of luxury and immoral life. Literary creation comes from social life, and the literary works about sex and erotic originates from people＇s common life. If literature played as a mirror of that time, philosophy would be the soul of the era. Therefore, the sex and erotic creation prevailing in the middle and late periods of the Ming Dynasty had its basis in thoughts and theories. The natural theory of human nature, which originated from Wang Yangming ＇s school of mind and made great progress by Li Zhi＇s ＂theory of the childlike heart＂, upgrades man~ desire for ＂sex＂ and ＂erotic＂ to superior and natural theorem, thereby being covered into a natural and exquisite beauty. According to the theory, neither can man＇s desire be restricted, nor unreasonable. So, erotic literature reflected the features of that society, embodying the derivation of spiritual concepts at that time.

关 键 词：明清文学 艳情 历史成因 

分 类 号：I206.2[文学—中国文学]