关于“《红楼梦》与宗教”研究的几点感想——序李根亮《〈红楼梦〉与宗教》

文学与思想的关系,内涵丰富,值得花精力加以清理探讨。宗教文学和受宗教影响的文学,都是"宗教与古代文学"这一专题的研究对象。二者在内涵和外延上虽不一致,但都面对同样的问题,即,在宗教与古代文学发生关系时,我们的研究是聚焦于与文学有关的"宗教"还是聚焦于文学中的"宗教"。从"《红楼梦》与宗教"的角度切入《红楼梦》研究,不难发现,在《红楼梦》与宗教的衔接处,最富魅力的是想象力的世界,一个令人神往的世界。关于"《红楼梦》与宗教",根亮的思考是达到了相当深度的。根亮指出,曹雪芹所说的"色"不仅仅是指男女之间的情色之好,应该是就整个现实人生而言,既包括物质世界又包括精神世界。

Preface on A Dream of Red Mansions and Religion Written by Li Genliang

Rich connotation exists in the relationship between literature and thought so that it is worthy to collate and study.Both literature about religion and literature influenced by religion are study objects of the topic of religion and ancient literature.Despite their internal and external difference,they face one same problem,that is,when literature is related to religion,what we should focus on between the religion relevant to literature and the religion hidden in literature?In the perspective of the relationship between A Dream of Red Mansions and religion to start the study on the novel,we can easily find that there is a charming and imaginary and amazing world in the joint area between the novel and religion.Yu Genliang has deeply thought in the study between A Dream of Red Mansions and religion.Yu Genliang proposed that the "lust" Cao Xueqin said means not only the sexy fondness between a man and a woman;it also means the feelings in both the material world and the mental world of all real life.