西方小说叙述惯例是“从中间开始”,中国传统则是“从头开始”。这不是小说技巧问题,而是中西审美文化差异使然。西方惯例是西方“征服自然”文化传统的审美表现,而中国惯例则是“顺应自然”文化传统的审美表征。随着文化传统的变异,惯例也可以自行解构。 Western fiction describes convention as “starting from the middle” and Chinese tradition as “starting from scratch”. This is not a matter of fiction skills, but the difference between Chinese and Western aesthetic culture. Western conventions are the aesthetic performance of Western “conquest of nature” cultural traditions, while Chinese conventions are aesthetic representations of “conforming to nature” cultural traditions. As cultural traditions mutate, conventions can also deconstruct themselves.