三国排调例说

排调,是古代流行于士大夫阶层中的一种相互调侃取乐的风尚。排调活动源于先秦和西汉,风行于东汉末年和三国,至两晋和南北朝则达到鼎盛。三国时期,皇帝、大臣都积极参与排调活动,排调逐渐发展成为一种专门的娱乐方式,并形成了一定的表演程式和艺术技巧。排调活动是两汉俳优表演、经学辩论和豪族意识等因素相互结合的产物,也是后来相声、小品、谜语等多种民间艺术形式的渊源。

Illustration on Witticism in the Three-Kingdom Period

Witticism is a behavior full of humor that applied in talks by the ancients to ridicule or allegorize somebody on something.This kind of witty talks came from Pre-Qin Period and Western Han Dynasty,but it was in the end of Eastern Han Dynasty and the Three-Kingdom Period when it grew into fashion and became a kind of entertainment activities.In Three-Kingdom Period emperors and ministers took great part in witty talks as actors and organizers and there took on various artistic forms in witty talks.Witty talks derived from combination of aulic farce,Confucian debate and consciousness of powerful families,and could be looked as the source of some folk art forms in the future including comic dialogue,sketch,riddle,etc.