两宋谣谚的社会内容和时代色彩

历代一些文人学者抱着“文词鄙俗,莫过于谚”的偏见对谣谚这一民间文学分支的价值不屑一顾,因此保存下来的谣谚作品数量不多,而专门对这一问题进行研究的成果更少。本文试从两宋谣谚所反映的社会内容着手来分析谣谚中折射出来的史料价值和文学价值,并指出一些谣谚有悖史实之处,以求更客观地看待民间谣谚的价值。当然,这些不符合历史之处,从整体上来说是无损于谣谚本身的光辉的。

Social Content and Time Color of Folk Proverbs in the Song Dynasty

Many writers and scholars in the history had a bias toward folk proverbs as an important part of folklore,asserting that "nothing can be more vulgar than folk proverbs".As a result,few works have been kept hitherto,and still fewer researches have been made in this field.The present paper attempts to explore the historical and literary value of folk proverbs in the Song dynasty(960-1279) from the perspective of their social content,and point out the deviations of some proverbs from the historical fact so as to give a more(objective) evaluation of folk proverbs.Certainly,those deviations do little harm to the overall literary glory of the proverbs themselves.