最近,我陆续阅读了三部作品:唐代元稹的《莺莺传》,宋金时期的《古本董解元西廂记》,以及元代王实甫的《西厢记》。这三部作品,在内容及人物形象上,均有一定的传承关系,但论成就之高、影响之广、流传之久,当以王实甫的《西厢记》为首屈一指。难怪元末清初文学评论家金圣叹,曾以一种喜不自胜的心情评价这部作品:“《西厢记》不同小可,乃是天地妙文。” Recently, I have read three works in succession: The Story of Yingying in the Yuan Dynasty in the Tang Dynasty, The Westward Story of the Ancient Dong Jieyuan in the Song and Jin Dynasties, and The West Chamber of Wang Shifu in the Yuan Dynasty. All these three works have a certain inheritance relationship with their content and characters. However, their achievement, their wide influence and their long history have been second to none. No wonder the late Qing Dynasty literary critic Kim Sung-sang, once in a kind of elusive mood evaluation of this work: "