《二拍》是明代擬話本中的重要作品，它屬於文人獨創型小說，能適切地反映晚明的社會狀況，以及作者本身的創作觀點，具有重要的價值和地位。僧道人物在《二拍》的78 篇小說中佔了23 篇，共計52 人，其中具負面形象的僧道人物佔了17 篇，共計32 人，可分成淫慾好色和慕利貪財兩種類型，就數量而言，負面形象多於正面，其中僧又多於道。關於僧道人物負面形象的成因，筆者認為可以從宗教、思想、文學、話本特質四方面來做分析與探究，即因僧道眾多良莠不齊、心學末流注重人欲、世情言情文學興起和誇張驚奇媚俗悅眾所造成。總之，從僧道人物的角度切入，我們不但可以了解作者凌濛初的創作觀念，它更像一面鏡子，可以幫助我們認識晚明的社會狀況。

“Erpai” is the important work of the imitation script for story-telling in Ming Dynasty,belongs to scholars’ created novels, can properly reflect the society in the later Ming Dynasty and the author’s creativeviewpoint, has important values, and plays an important role.Buddhist monks and Taoists make up twenty-three chapters in the novel with seventy-eight
chapters from “Erpai” and there are fifty-two people in total. Among them, Buddhist monks and Taoists with the negative images make up
seventeen chapters and there are thirty-two people in total, including licentious and lustful people and people who yearn for the benefit
and are greedy for money. Negative people outnumber positive people and among them,Buddhist monks outnumber Taoists.Concerning the causes of the negative Buddhist monks and Taoists, I think that they can be analyzed and explored from four aspects of the religion, the thinking, the
literature, and the script. That is to say, many good and bad Buddhist monks and Taoists, the emphasis of the last branch of the mind study on human desire, the rise and the development of the literature full of feelings, and the exaggeration, the surprise, flattering and pleasing the general cause the negative Buddhist monks and Taoists. Anyway, from the angle of Buddhist monks and Taoists, we can not only understand the concept of the author: Mengchu Ling, but it can be more like a mirror and help us know society during the later Ming Dynasty.