胡應麟論齊梁陳隋詩與唐律之關係辨

Hu Ying-lin's Comments on the Relationship between the Poetry of Qi, Liang, Chen and Sui Dynasties and the Regulated Verse of Tang Dynasty

Abstract

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

胡應麟(1551—1602)生當明代中葉前後七子主領文壇之世，論詩不脱明人習尚，推尊盛唐，講求興象風神。但他能夠同時客觀地上溯唐律形成的脈絡，舉出眾多例證，切實從詩歌語言的聲調、句法、風格、結構諸端，探討齊梁陳隋與唐律的關係，這在明代是突出的。

本文試就論流變、論格律、論結構三方面，對胡氏的論述加以辨析，期以補充批評史上對其詩論的認識，更進一步思考在清世聲調論大盛之前，明人在這方面的探索有什麼意義。

Hu Ying-lin (1551-1602) was bom into a literary era dominated by the so-called Qian qi-zi and Hon qi-zi (Earlier Seven Masters and Later Seven Masters). His views on poetry, not surprisingly, reflected the prevailing trend which promoted High Tang poetry as the highest standard for writing poems. What set him apart from other Ming critics, however, was his interest in the origins of Tang regulated verse, and his objective attempts to explore the similarities between regulated verse and Qi, Liang, Chen and Sui poems in tonal pattern, syntax, style, and structure.

This paper examines Hu Ying-lin's views on this subject, focusing on three areas: the development, versification and structure of regulated verse. It is hoped that this would give us a better insight of Hu's poetry criticism. Furthermore, it should shed some light on the views of Ming critics on the issue of tonal patterns before it was vigorously pursued by scholars of Ching dynasty.