| 英文摘要 |
Human phenomena is said to be more complex than anything else. Experiement is impossible and prejudice inevitable. Yet the belief that there are always clues and hints existing somewhere keeps scholars exploring in various fields. Popular literature is certainly one of the major sources. In the present study, I intend to present some basic points of the world-view of the Chinese masses. In the first place, time span must be indicated. To a student of human phenomena, today is always more important than yesterday. I am mainly interested in the popular literature of today in its broadest meaning. Because of the continuity of history, we really cannot separate to-day from yesterday. The problem is that the stories we hear and read today may owe their origin to the remote past. In an attempt to make more sense out of today's story we must go back to yesterday and the days before it. The periods of Ming, Ch'ing and the six decades thereafter, a span of about six hundred years, are .covered in the second and third chapters of this study. The first chapter goes back to even earlierperiods. But all the stories I discuss in this paper can be easily heard in today's daily life in Hong Kong or Taiwan. |
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