这两年由于为南方某报写“水浒”专栏,意外地,在《水浒传》里读到了很多陕北方言。其中个别意思和陕北话的用法略有出入,但大部分与《水浒传》中的用法完全一致。这发现最初令我很激动,但慢慢也就释然了。《水浒》本来就是一本来自民间,又走向民间的书。在文人施耐庵或罗贯中编辑、加工之前,它经历了长时间的口头传说与民间艺人讲述的阶段。以前的本子多题作“施耐庵集撰”或“罗 In the past two years, due to the southern newspaper wrote ”Water Margin “ column, accidentally, in the ”Water Margin“ read a lot of northern Shaanxi dialect. The meanings of individual meanings are slightly different from those of northern Shaanxi dialect, but most of them are completely consistent with the usage in ”Outlaws of the Marsh“. The discovery initially excites me, but slowly relieves itself. ”Water Margin“ has always been a book from the private sector, but also to civilians. Before the scholar Shi Naian or Luo Guanzhong was edited and processed, it went through a long period of oral lectures and stages of narration by folk artists. Many books before the book ”Shi Naian set “ or ”Luo