劉伯端詞事繫年

A chronological Study of Lau Pak-tun’s ci

Abstract

LANGUAGE NOTE | Document text in Chinese; abstract also in English.

劉景堂(1887-1963)，號伯端。廣東番禺人。嘗任職廣東學務公所。1911年廣州黃花崗事起後來港，任香港華民署文案。公餘之暇，開始學詞；多與陳步墀、汪兆銓、張學華、俞安鳳、俞安鼐、黎國廉等唱和。又先生嘗加盟南社，《南杜叢刻》選錄其詩詞七首。戰時遠走桂平，戰後回港。1950年與廖恩燾、羅忼烈等組堅社，推動詞學，影響甚大。有《滄海樓詞》傳世，公認為香港首屈一指的詞人。劉詞語淺情深，婉約渾成，將美學和哲思融合為一，境界自高。劉詞不單是香港文學的代表，也是中國近代詞壇振起的異軍。王國維「境界」之論，況周頤「詞境」、「詞心」之美，在劉詞中都有深刻完美的呈現。劉景堂居港五十年，經歷過不同的歷史時期，所與交者皆一時俊彥，文采風流。本文透過劉景堂的一生，可以看出香港詞人的成長歷程，保留一批較為罕見的文學史料；同時也可以由一個全新的角度檢視傳統文學在當代的發展和成就。

Lau Pak-tun （1887-1963）,a native of Guang Dong, was born and brought up in Canton. On the eve of the 1911 Revolution, he moved with his family to Hong Kong where he joined the staff of the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs where he remained until he took early retirement as a result of ill health.

From his early twenties he began the writing of ci poetry and remained devoted to this genre throughout his life. His initial volume of ci entitled Xin ying ci（心影詞）（1920）, was followed by various collections, culminating in his Cang Hai Lou ci （滄海樓詞）, published in 1953. This series of publications established firmly his reputation as one of the most distinguished writers of this genre. In 1967, a new edition of the Cang Hai Lou ci was brought out which gathers in the earlier and later collections. Unfortunately, the ci are not arranged in strict chronological order and offers serious obstacles to admirers of his ci. In this article, the author makes extensive use of material available in the writings of Lau’s contemporaries and associates and succeeds in a much closer dating of his work. It is not only a contribution of great value to students of Lau Pak-tun’s ci but also to historians of Chinese literature in modem times.