以意外和机遇构建的富贵之梦——论市民暴富心理与晚明白话短篇小说中的发迹变泰故事

明中叶以来,由于商品经济得到前所未有的发展,社会上形成了尚利好货的价值观,特别在市民阶层表现得更为突出,而暴富心理就是这种价值观影响下的一个较为典型的社会心理。这一心理在明中叶以后的白话短篇小说中也得到了充分的体现,作品写了相当多的发迹变泰的故事,尤其热衷于那些因偶然因素或凭意外机遇而暴富的故事。

Fortunate Dream Constructed with Surprise and Opportunity--On the fortunate stories in late Ming Dynasty vernacular short novels

After the mid - term of the Ming Dynasty, because of the unprecedently expansion in commodity economy, the benefitoriented .sense of value had been formed, especially among the common people, while the psychology of suddenly rich was typical one under the influence of that sense. And this psychology had been fully embodied in the popular fictions during that period, for most of the fictions were about becoming rich and important, especially by means of fortune or sudden factors.