“金枝”视域中的彩笔——中国经典梦意象的美学分析之二

在中国古代经典梦意象当中，彩笔梦是影响非常深远的一个。自从江淹梦得彩笔文思大涨之后，历代文人常有此梦载录，并衍生出诸如“彩色笔梦”、“砚梦”等同一性质的梦意象来。彩笔梦之所以如此盛行，是因为其与文章、功名的密切关系。从这个角度上来说，彩笔梦蕴藏着中国古代文人对于自身文学成就的渴望。“彩笔梦”中的彩笔之所以具有如此重要的神性，与弗雷泽所描述的“金枝”有着异曲同工之妙，都是“触染率”的典型表现。

A Study on the Dream of Multicolored Pen with the Golden Bough--The Individual Aesthetic Analyses of the Ancient Chinese Dream Images

Dreams, a familiar topic in ancient China. The western theories and the Chinese classical dream images are derived from different backgrounds, but as the common wealth of human spirit, they have strong compatibility with each other and could help us reveal some inner structures unnoticed. The theoretical resources is the anthropological culture of Frazer. The ideas of the Law of Contact and the Law of Similarity that were described by Frazer in the Golden Bough were perfectly expressed through the multicolored pen, another classical dream image dreamed of bv countless literti in ancient China.