先秦典籍与小说滥觞

先秦典籍是研究中国传统文化、中国文学起源的重要文献,自然也是研究中国小说起源的重要文献。通阅先秦典籍,通观前人对先秦典籍的研究,参以今天的小说理论,可见先秦典籍中那些有意作伪的伪书,先秦典籍中的许多文体形式,结构模式,先秦典籍中的神话传说、志怪故事和寓言故事,先秦典籍的叙事写人等都对后世的小说文体产生了巨大的影响,堪称中国小说之滥觞。

Pre - Qin - Dynasty Canonical Works and the Origin of the Chinese Novel

As significant references for studying Chinese culture and the origin of Chinese literature,the Pre-Qin-Dynasty canonical works,naturally,are also significant references for studying the origin of the Chinese novel.Viewing through these classics and the previous studies on them,we are able to conclude that their narration and depiction have exerted great influence upon the late-coming novel as a genre,and consequently they are the very origin of the Chinese novel,with reference to the present-day theories on the novel, the intentional pseudographs among them,and their stylistic forms,their structural patterns,as well as the mythological legends,supernatural stories and fables and allegories contained in them.