宋元南戏与民间生活伦理

宋元南戏最初来自民间,其曲词、念白广泛吸收了当时社会通行的成语、谚语及格言、警语等,不仅有力增强了戏曲舞台表演效果,更向基层民众巧妙传授了切于实用的生活伦理,有效发挥了戏曲社会教化的功能。宋元四大南戏《荆》、《刘》、《拜》、《杀》频繁引用民间谚语、格言的现象颇具代表性。南戏中这些通俗且警拔的语句又见于宋元以来的一些道德教育读物如《名贤集》、《增广贤文》、《事林广记》等。对照考察宋元南戏中谚语、格言与《增广贤文》等读物内容相同相近情况,可以从一个独特角度梳理、归结出宋元民间社会所推重的一些生活伦理价值,进而探讨民间生活伦理与戏文创作之间的互动关系。

The Southern Drama during the Song and the Yuan Dynasty and the Then Folk Ethics of Life With the Relationship between the Four Southern Dramas and:Mingxianji,Zengguangxianwen,ShilinguangjiAs the Target on Investigation

The Southern drama during the Song and the Yuan Dynasty originated itself first of all from among the common people.Its song word and dialogues widely drawn upon the idioms,proverbs,aphorisms and epigrams popular in the then society.This not only adds power to its stage effects,but even cunningly propagates practical ethics of life toward the people at the bottom of society,thus bringing into play the enlightenment function of the theatre.And these idioms,proverbs,aphorisms and epigrams were so often than not encountered in certain moral education readers such as Mingxianji,Zengguangxianwen,Shilinguangji.A comparative study of the idioms,proverbs,aphorisms and epigrams in the four southern dramas and those in Mingxianji,Zengguangxianwen,Shilinguangjican promote our understanding of the relationship between Southern dramas and civilian readings,and the secularized ethics of life during the Song and the Yuan Dynasty.What is more,we can at the same time have a complete picture of the inter mechanism of how to put social moral education of traditional drama and enlightenment activities into practice..