姻緣故事寶卷研究

The Research on Stories of Blissful Union in Baojuan Texts

林秀嬪(Hsiu-Pin Lin)

指導教授 ： 洪淑苓

國立臺灣大學/文學院/中國文學研究所/碩士(2012年)

https://doi.org/10.6342/NTU.2012.01713

摘要

寶卷是明清時流行於民間的一種宗教性說唱本子，本研究屬於寶卷研究範疇裡的民間文學研究，選用講述青年男女婚戀故事的文本為研究對象，並依寶卷的特質將之命名為「姻緣故事寶卷」。這些故事寶卷大多流傳於清末民初時期，題材方面深受彈詞與鼓詞的影響，文中將試圖拈出這些故事不同於其他體裁類似故事的特質。本論文共分為六章，首先說明研究動機與方法，從文獻回顧中找出本論文的定位，並釐清何謂「姻緣故事」。第二章先分析姻緣故事寶卷的題材來源與敘事模式，並且與最有密切關聯的「才子佳人」模式相較。第三章以角色功能為界，分析各角色在故事中發揮的作用以及呈現哪些、什麼樣的人物形象。第四章進一步由角色關係切入，探討姻緣故事寶卷所反映的婚姻型態及核心的倫理價值。第五章再將研究觸及面向加深加廣，由文化的角度切入，首先探討明清時期的情教觀與宗教世俗化的現象如何影響姻緣故事寶卷；再則探討宗教信仰融入故事的情形；最後觀照傳播、閱聽寶卷主要的群眾——民間婦女，看姻緣故事寶卷所反映的女性文化，以及女性對故事的影響。第六章則為結論。

關鍵字

寶卷 ； 姻緣故事 ； 才子佳人 ； 民間婦女 ； 民間文學

並列摘要

The Baojuan is a religious performance script popular through the Ming and Qing dynasties. Characterized by a mixture of prose and song, the script was delivered in a ritualized fashion and served as a sort of sermon to the commonfolk. Owing to such style, the Baojuan has been classified under the prose and song genre (說唱文學)of folk literature (民間文學).
Treating the Baojuan as such, this study focuses on texts that recount youth romances and aims to highlight the distinguishing features of the Baojuan style through a comparison of similar stories told in different form. Baojuan texts that tell such stories, which I term “Stories of Blissful Union” (姻緣故事) were spread mostly during the late Qing and early Republic Era: the subject matter of which has been deeply influenced by the Tanci (彈詞) and Guci（鼓詞）styles.
This thesis includes six chapters. Chapter 1 the research motive and methodology and define what is meant by a “Story of Blissful Union”. The literature review will place this thesis in perspective. Chapter 2 will analyze the sources and narrative mode of the stories, especially in comparison to the closely related “gifted scholars and beautiful ladies” (才子佳人) mode. Chapter 3 is about the different characters and their functions in the general plot. Chapter4, in turn, deals with the motives and allegiances of characters, thereby reading the texts in light of a deeper significance and meaning. Chapter 5 will deal with cultural aspects of the text. Firstly, I will analyze how the Education Based on the Feeling(情教觀) and Religious Profaneness during Ming and Qing dynasties influenced the stories, to give secular folklore a tinge of religious flavor. Lastly, I shall turn to the primary audience to the texts – the common womenfolk of Late Imperial China – to discuss how the texts reflected women’s lives, and how the lives of women gave shape to the texts. Chapters 6 is the conclusion.

並列關鍵字

Baojuan ； stories of blissful union ； gifted scholars and beautiful ladies ； common womenfolk ； folk literature

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