Li Jieren’s “River Fiction Trilogy” and the Scene, Ritual, and Spatial Concepts of Vernacular Architecture in the Ba and Shu Region: With Thoughts on the Role of Local Fictions in the Study of Vernacular Architecture. “大河三部曲” 与巴蜀风土 建筑的空间观念 —兼论地方小说在风土建筑研究中的作用.

聚焦李劼人于 1930 年代创作的以晚清时期的成都 为时空背景的地方小说“大河三部曲”中郝姓士绅 的宅院, 结合小说文本, 参考民居实例复原其平 面布局; 进而梳理郝家在宅院中日常生活、仪式 和会客的场景; 并通过分析不同关系人物的活动 与建筑布局的关系, 讨论巴蜀地区传统风土宅院 的空间观念; 最后探讨了利用地方小说来解读传 统风土建筑的意义及局限。

Focusing on Li Jieren’s local novels, known as the “River Fiction Trilogy” written in the 1930s that described the Hao house in Chengdu in late Qing dynasty as the spatiotemporal background, the paper first reconstructs its layout based on the novel’s text and reference of vernacular architecture, and it examines the scenes of daily life, rituals, and social gatherings within different spaces of the Hao house. Further, by analyzing the relationship between the activities of various characters and the architectural layout, the paper discusses the spatial concepts of traditional vernacular houses in the Ba and Shu region. Finally, it explores the significance and limitations of using local novels to interpret traditional vernacular architecture.