Abstract

With the deepening of globalization, more and more foreigners feel like getting an insight into Chinese society and Chinese people. Moment in Peking, a classic in describing modern China, has once won the nomination for Nobel Prize for literature four times. With such an international fame, it becomes many foreigners’ choice to know about China.
 
This novel was written in English by Lin Yutang from 1938 to 1939 in Paris. It describes the ups and downs of three big Peking households—Yao，Tseng and New family, in the turbulent China ranging from 1900 to 1938. Lin Yutang’ daughter Lin Rusi once commented on this novel that, in the book, there are lifelike personality presentation, beautiful landscape description and close psychological observation, but its biggest contribution lies in the philosophy that has been spread, including Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism, among which Taoism has the maximum proportion. These three thoughts have made a great difference to the Chinese people and Chinese society during the thousands-year history. They are so broad and mysterious that many foreign readers are not able to understand them implicated in the novel. In this paper, I choose The Book of Tao and Teh as foundation for the study of Taoism in the novel, The Analects for the Confucianism and The Wisdom of China and India for Buddhism. Taoism in the novel focuses on the law of nature and the law of negation of negation. The Confucianism in it emphasizes on Ren and Li of the five constants. As for Buddhism, some of its concepts such as the Four Truths, emptiness, and Dukkha have been applied to some characters. Generally, Buddhism is regarded as the rescue in it. At last, I hope this paper can help readers in understanding both the book and China more profoundly. 

Key words: Moment in Peking, Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhism

摘        要

随着全球化的一步步加深，愈来愈多的外国人希望加深对中国社会和中国人的了解。而曾四度获得诺贝尔奖提名的《京华烟云》则是描绘近代中国社会的经典之作，享有国际声誉，许多外国人都通过阅读此书加深对中国的了解。

该小说由林语堂于1938年至1939年期间在法国巴黎用英文写作而成，讲述了从1900年到1938年期间北京姚、曾、牛三大家族在一系列历史大事件中的兴衰起伏。林语堂的女儿林如斯曾对小说评论到：此书有生动的性格刻画，栩栩如生的风景描写，巧妙的心理描绘，但其最大的贡献还是在于其哲学意义。书中的哲学思想主要包括中国传统的道家、儒家以及佛家思想，其中又以道家为主。这三大思想博大精深，在数千年的历史中对中国人和中国社会产生了深刻了影响。而许多外国人在阅读小说时往往难以体会到作者在许多情节和人物设计中所蕴含的这三大思想。本篇论文以《道德经》、《论语》、《中国印度之智慧》为基础对小说中的道、儒、佛家思想进行探究分析阐述。其中道家思想主要包括矛盾双方互相转换的道法论，以及回归自然的道用论。儒家思想则重点体现在儒家五常中的仁和礼。佛家中的四真理、空和八苦等概念在小说中有所体现，总体而言，佛家思想在小说中以普救世人的形象存在。希望此篇论文能帮助读者更好地理解该小说，更好的了解中国文化。

关键词：京华烟云，道家，儒家，佛家