晚明朋友楷模的重寫：馮夢龍《三吉》中的友倫故事

Rewriting Exemplary Friends in the Late Ming: Feng Menglong’s Friendship Stories

Abstract

LANGUAGE NOTE | Document text in Chinese; abstract also in English.

晚明是一個友道大興的時代。但友道的興盛也使得友倫與五倫中的其他人倫關係之間的矛盾日益突出。本文試圖通過對馮夢龍《三言》中幾則有關友倫故事的解讀來探討晚明士人對友倫既熱衷又焦慮的悖論態度。

The Late Ming was a historical period when friendship was celebrated with unprecedented enthusiasm. However, such celebration also helped intensify the long-standing conflicts between friendship and other human relationships as defined in the Confucian notion of wulun or “the five cardinal human relationships." This essay is a reading of several stories focusing on friendship by Feng Menglong to explore some of the implications of the ambivalence toward friendship shared among many literati at that time.