西俗还是西学:论清末小说中的“食牛”  

Western Custom or Western Learning:On"Beef-eating"in Novels in the Late Qing Dynasty

作　　者：蔡亚平[1] 梁致远 CAI Ya-ping;LIANG Zhi-yuan

机构地区：[1]暨南大学文学院,广东广州510632

出　　处：《闽南师范大学学报（哲学社会科学版）》2022年第4期80-87,共8页Journal of Minnan Normal University:Philosophy and Social Sciences

摘　　要：在中国古典小说中,牛很早即被赋予神圣的地位,“食牛”是一种禁忌。而到了清末,“食牛”这一源自西方的习俗在西学框架中得到正面的文化阐释。在这一时期的小说中,食牛者往往拥有西学背景,拒绝接受“食牛”的角色要么充当了旧学代表,要么尚处于刚开始学习西学的阶段。小说中的“食牛”行为已不再是简单的西俗,而是上升到西学的层面。这正是清末中西“学战”在小说中留下的痕迹。In classical Chinese novels,oxen had long been given sacred status,and"beef-eating"a taboo.To the end of the Qing Dynasty,the custom of eating beef,which originated from Western countries,was positively explained in the culturalframe‐work of Western learning.In the novels of this period,beef eaters often had a background of Western learning.Those who refused to accept the roles of beef eating either acted as representatives of the old school,or were still in the stage of learning Western learning.Beef-eating behavior in the novels was no longer a simple Western custom,but rose to the level of Western learning.This is exactly the trace left by the Chinese and Western"learning warfare"in the novels in the late Qing Dynasty.

关 键 词：食牛 清末小说 西学 “学战” 

分 类 号：I206.2[文学—中国文学]