以雅入俗——宋代小说的普及与繁荣

宋代小说比唐代小说更为普及与繁荣,表现在小说有了更广泛的读者和听众群,作者也由文士向俚儒野老扩展,小说的内容和形式日渐趋俗,数量也大大增加等几个方面。宋代统治者对小说的喜好和有利于小说发展的文化政策,崇儒兼容佛、道的宗教政策给小说的普及和繁荣提供了宽松的政治和文化环境。宋代小说入史之举和私史编撰之风的盛行,使小说创作者能实现其人生价值,促进了以史为楷模的小说的大量创作与繁荣。宋代印刷术的革新及印刷业的发展又给宋代小说的广泛传播普及繁荣并实现其经济价值带来了必要的物质条件和物质保证。

FROM THE ELEGANT TO THE POPULAR-THE POPULARIZATION AND FLOURISHING OF NOVELS IN THE SONG DYNASTY

The Song Dynasty's novels are more universalized and flourishing than Tang Dynasty's, and have had move extensive readers and audience. The authors of the novels vary from scholars to ordinary people. The contents and forms of the novels are getting more and more popular, and the quantity also increases greatly.The rulers of the Song Dynasty like the novels, and have adopted the civilization policy that is favour of the novels' development, and their religion policy also gives the popularization of the novels to have provided the free civilization environment with flourishing.The Song Dynasty novels enter history and personal history compilies being current, which enables the authors to realize their life value, and has promoted the large numbers of novels to be created and makes them popular.The innovation and the Song Dynasty art of printing and the development of the printing industry have also contributed to the wide spreading of the novels in the Song Dynasty.