清代《西游记》道家评本解读

由近人的论述反观古人的解说 ,发现有清一代道家垄断了《西游记》的评说。《西游证道书》首发其端。《西游真诠》大张其说 ,后出之评本均依从之。都是将《西游记》附会为隐喻道家的修炼之道的书 ,其目的就是借这部为人爱读的通俗小说 ,传布其教 ,招徕信徒 ,挽救道教日益衰落的历史命运。

The Cultural Motivation behing The pilgrimage to the West with Comments in the Qing Dynasty

By examining the ancients's explanation with the moderns or contemporaries' discurse,the author find that the Taoists monopolized The Pilgrimage to the West in the Qing Dynasty.There appeared first the The Book Demonstrating the Tao by The Pilgrimage to the West,then The True Exposition of The Pilgrimage to the West and followed by other texts in this manner.All of them interpreted The Pilgrimage of the West as a book that contained many metaphors of the Taoism and by this book,to spread its tenets,tout believers and retrieve the decreasing fate of the Taoism.