迷信與新創──論許丙丁《小封神》的地景書寫與信仰視野

Superstition and Innovation--On the Landscape Writing and Religious Visions of Bing-Ding Hsu’s Xiao Feng Shen

《小封神》被視為書寫臺南民間故事的神魔小說，許丙丁建構一個以臺南為真實場景的天界空間，而許丙丁如何記錄臺南，《小封神》天界如何架構神聖空間？此為本文所要探討的問題。從地景書寫的角度出發，在《小封神》世界中寫入臺南所產生的意義，無論是虛構的故事或者是符合實際存在的廟宇，甚至是許丙丁的想像，都充分展現臺南的地方特質，更重要的是，這些小說情節都呈現臺南人的集體記憶並持續發酵。獨特的地景書寫模式被賦予深層的意義。許丙丁雖自言以「破除迷信」為寫作宗旨，卻反而首開先河的呈現當時臺南常民百姓的信仰視野，保留許多珍貴的傳說，甚至凸顯傳說與信仰相揉合的真實樣貌。筆者試圖在過去的研究基礎上，以當代臺南民間信仰的現況，來探析《小封神》對臺南信仰視野與地景書寫的影響，乃至《小封神》成書至今對臺南民俗與文化發展的作用力。

Xiao Feng Shen is regarded as a supernatural novel to write the folk tales of Tainan. Hsu Bing Ding constructed a celestial space with Tainan as the spectacle. This paper aims to discuss how Hsu Bing-Ding records Tainan and how the celestial world in Xiao Feng Shen structures the sacred space? From the perspective of landscape writing, the significance of writing Tainan in the world of Xiao Feng Shen, whether it is a fictional story or is in line with the actual temples, or Hsu’s imagination, it shows Tainan local characteristics adequately. Moreover, these stories are present in Tainan people’s collective memory and continue to ferment. The uniqueness of the landscape writing mode is endowing with deep meaning. Although he said that his writing aim was to “dispel superstitions,” he was the first to present the belief vision of ordinary people in Tainan at that time. Hsu retained many precious legends and even highlighted the realistic appearance of combining legends and beliefs. Based on the past research, this paper tries to analyze Xiao Feng Shen’s influence on the belief vision and landscape writing in Tainan and Xiao Feng Shen’s influence on the development of Tainan folklore and culture.