賈母:中國文學史上之第一母儀

The mother of Jia Zheng: the example of mother in the history of Chinese literature

Authors

  • 季學源 (JI Xue Yuan) 寧波大學浙東文化研究所

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24112/sinohumanitas.92382

Keywords:

母愛, 新文化思想因素, 新文化心態, 後四十回, Maternal love, factor of new cultural thoughts, mental status of new culture, Latter forty chapters

Abstract

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

賈母形象集中凝聚了我國古代老祖母的一切思想、情懷:同時,又顯現了中國社會歷史大轉型時期母親的主要時代特徵。本文從三個方面對此展開論證:一、賈母性格中的新文化思想因素:(一)世界觀、人生觀:她不信鬼神宗敎,不求來世美好,而追求現實的人間幸福,她的死也是美的;(二)倫理道德觀:母愛是其倫理道德的出發點、過程和歸宿。她借母愛之偉力,盡力填平「代溝」、「性溝」;(三)婚姻觀和女性價值觀:她反覆強調的是婚姻當事人本身的條件,而不是門第、貧富。與男尊女卑觀念相反,她對女孩兒始終關愛有加,遠勝於男子;(四)審美觀:她是生命之花、人生之美的培育者、讚賞者和呵護者。二、賈母與鳳姐的關係,反映了新型婆媳關係之萌始,揭示了女性的新文化心態。三、後四十回有不少關於賈母之精彩章回,也有若干拙筆、敗筆,這是造成對賈母形象誤讀的主要原因。

Mother Jia is the miniature of her age. Her thought, behavior and main characteristics represent all that of a mother at the great time of historic transition. This article discusses these from three aspects: 1. The thoughts and cultural factors in Mother Jia: a. Outlook on the entire world and life: she is neither superstitious nor religious; She pursuits human happiness in reality rather than that after death. Even her death is a kind of beauty, b. Ethical and moral standards: Maternal love is the starting point, procedure and home of ethical and moral standards. She tries to bridge the gaps among generations and sexes with the power of maternal love. c. View of marriage and female value: She emphasizes repeatedly the natural conditions of the two persons of a marriage not the family background or property. She takes great care of her daughters but not her sons, which is contrary to the social customs-man were revered while women were looked down upon. d. Aesthetics of beauty: She seems to be the flower of life, the gardener, praise and guardian of human beauty. 2. The relationship between Mother Jia and Sister Feng (daughter-in-low) signals the beginning of a new era of that between mothers and daughters-in- low, reveals the new cultural ideas of the female. 3. In the latter forty chapters of the story, a great deal of compliments were given to Mother Jia, but some degradations of her also appears too, which I think are the main factors that result in the misunderstanding of Mother Jia by the readers.

Published

2002-12-01

How to Cite

季 學. (2002). 賈母:中國文學史上之第一母儀: The mother of Jia Zheng: the example of mother in the history of Chinese literature. 人文中國學報, 9, 51–81. https://doi.org/10.24112/sinohumanitas.92382

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論文