在明清小说中普遍存在一种世外高人型的神仙或类神仙形象,如《水浒传》中的智真长老、罗真人,《红楼梦》中的跛足道人、癞头和尚、警幻仙姑等等。这些形象有些并没有出现在主干情节之中,但作为一类重要的人物形象在情节结构,内容思想等方面都起着非常重要的作用,这在《三国演义》这部小说中表现的尤为突出。 In the novels of Ming and Qing dynasties, there is a kind of extraordinarily tall-type fairy or fairy-like image, such as the intelligent elders and Luozhen people in The Water Margin, the lame Taoist in The Dream of Red Mansions, Xiangu and so on. Some of these images did not appear in the main plot, but as an important group of characters, they played an important role in plot structure and content thought, which was especially prominent in the novel The Romance of the Three Kingdoms .