论八股文对明清小说语言的影响

明清小说作者十分熟悉八股文的语言风格,转作小说时很难摆脱原有的束缚。小说作者将八股文骈丽的语言以及引用书经的用语方式应用到小说写作中,形成了"以时文为小说"的八股笔法,尤以语言风格最为显著,这使得明清小说的语言被雅化了,并具有鲜明的八股色彩。

Probing into the Influence of the Eight-legged Essay on the Novels in the Ming and Qing Dynasties

The authors of the novels in the Ming and Qing Dynasties are very familiar with the language style of the eight-legged essay.When they wrote the novel,it was difficult to get rid the original fetter.The authors applied the eight-legged essay’s parallel language and the way of quoting the Confucian classics to the novel writing.It had formed the eight-legged writing technique of "take the eight-legged essay as the novel".The language style was especially most remarkable.This caused the language of the Ming and Qing Dynasties’ novels to melt elegantly,and had the bright color of the eight-legged essay.