唐代占梦小说与《汲冢琐语》的关系

唐代占梦小说导源于古代的占梦术和占梦小说故事。唐代占梦小说分为占梦小说、梦告小说和感应小说。战国时期《汲冢琐语》是一部“古今纪异之祖”、“古今小说之祖”的作品,记叙梦验是其重要內容之一。作品所描写的离奇古怪的梦象、穿凿附会的占辞和梦验,构成了占梦小说最初的内容。唐代占梦小说多半袭取了这一类故事的占梦內容和叙事结构。通过对这两者的分析得出这样一个结论,即唐代占梦小说导源于《汲冢琐语》一书,《琐语》是唐代占梦小说的雏形。而这种观点是对现有梦文学史研究只把诗歌、诸子散文、史传等看做梦文学起源的观点的补充。

The Relationship between Dream Interpreting Novels in Tang Dynasty and Ji Zhong Shuoyu

Originated from ancient dream interpretation and the relative stories, the dream interpreting novel in Tang dynasty could be divided into dream interpreting novel, dream predicting novel, and corresponding novel. As the "origin of weird stories" , one of its main content of Ji Zhong Shuoyu( Grave digging Anecdote ) , written in Warring States period, is recording dream experiences, no matter how absurd or weird they are. Comparing Tang dream interpreting novels with Ji Zhong Shuoyu, I incline to conclude that the later is the origin of the former, and indeed is the rudiment of such novels popular in Tang. I wish my conclusion could complement the traditional view that only poetry, scholastic writing, and epic are the origin of dream literature.