本文以《醒世姻緣傳》的懺罪書寫為起點，省思懺罪書寫中的宗教、文化、經濟等不同元素的交互作用，尤其側重在文化層面的省察，試圖為《醒世姻緣傳》的閱讀提供一個新的觀察面向。因此，本文就其書中相關的象徵、情節、修辭等加以梳理，特別著意河川文化在《醒世姻緣傳》一書當中的種種可能意義，依序處理明水瀝澇的多重宗教與文化意涵、河神信仰與戲劇懺悔儀式、以及通州作為運河城市而產生繁華與墮落的文化特質。最後，論析《醒世姻緣傳》的文化書寫，有一潛在之宗教倫理與經濟生活的基礎結構，罪疚感的根源之一便來自在明清士商結構轉變的社會中，運河文化、商品經濟所帶來價值軌範的偏離與錯位。因此，懺罪書寫在《醒世姻緣傳》中的深刻意義，就在於道德價值的脫軌與錯位後，對宗教倫理的歸返，並體現了河川文化與中國宗教、文化書寫的相互關係以及重要性。

In this paper, confession of Xing Shi Yin Yuan Chuan as a starting point, confession in reflection of religious, cultural and economic interaction of different elements, with particular emphasis on the cultural level introspection, trying to provide a new viewpoint for Xing Shi Yin Yuan Chuan. Therefore, this article focus on analysis of the fiction-related symbols, plot, rhetoric, etc., especially all kinds of the meaning on the river culture of Xing Shi Yin Yuan Chuan, in turn dealing with the multiple religious and cultural meaning of the flood water in Ming Shui Town（ming shui li lao）, river belief and drama ritual, and the Tongzhou as a Canal city, and then accompanied with glory and depraved characteristics. Finally, analysis on the basic structure of Xing Shi Yin Yuan Chuan are religious ethics and economic life, however, in the fiction, one of the origin of the guilty comes from the canal culture, Commodity Economy which results in dislocation and deviation of moral in the Late Imperial China business community. Therefore, the importance of confession in the Xing Shi Yin Yuan Chuan is religious ethics return after the dislocation and deviation of moral values, and reflects the relationship between river culture and Chinese religions.

醒世姻緣傳;懺悔錄;樂園;洪水神話;戲劇儀式;運河文化

Xing Shi Yin Yuan Chuan; Confession; Paradise; flood myth; drama ritual; The Grand Canal Cultur