试论白蛇传故事的嬗变

白蛇传故事是中国四大民间传说之一,它深植于民间文化的土壤之中,有着悠长的形成发展历史,是一个动态流变的故事。在长期衍变过程中,白娘子的形象不断得到升华,逐渐从一条凶残邪恶的美女蛇转变成一位美丽多情、温婉贤淑、勇敢坚毅的人间女子。从人们对蛇女态度由厌恶向同情的明显转变中,传递出了女性地位变化的时代信息。同时,作为一个诞生于民间的人蛇恋故事,它受到佛经故事带来的异域人妖亲和观念影响,反映出了民众对于人蛇相恋的复杂态度,这与人们对性爱既渴望又畏惧的矛盾心理和对蛇既敬且畏的复杂态度有关。

The Development of The Tale of the White Snake

As one of the four most famous folk tales in China,The Tale of the White Snake plants deeply in soil of folk culture.Being a story of dynamic rheology,it has a history of development in which the image of the White Wife gets distillation constantly and changes from a fierce,cruel snake to be a beautiful,loving,virtuons,brave and firm woman in human world.The information of the improvement in the states of woman is transmitted by the change of people's attitude about love between a human being and a snake,which is affected by the blending idea between men and ghosts in the Buddhist sutra story that comes from foreign countries,reflects people's complicated attitude to the man and snake love.This attitude is related to the contradictory psychology of the people about sexual love with both thirsty and fear as well as the mixed feeling about snakes with both respect and fear.