“用咸英之曲,变烂熳之音”——评贞观诗坛的应制诗

Comment on Yingzhi Poems in the Zhenguan Poetic World

唐王朝在隋朝的基础上建立起来,刚刚经过隋末的战乱,其中许多人还曾追随李氏父子多年征战,因而生活道路也与梁、陈宫体诗人们完全不同,精神状态发扬蹈厉。这势必产生新的审美风尚和文学品位,在创作应制诗的过程中,把太平盛世和开国气象结合起来,把自身的感受融入到理想的实现之中,并不只是用空虚的词藻来阿谀媚附,言语虽华丽,但并不过分雕琢,而且言归雅正,表现了昂扬向上的积极精神风貌。

The Tang dynasty was established on the foundation of Sui Dynasty and experienced the chaos caused by war at the end of Sui. At that time many people followed the father and the son of Li family to go on an expedition for many years, thus the life was quite different from Liang＇s, Chen Gongti＇s, and the state of mind was high-spirited. This inevitably produced the new esthetic prevailing custom and the literature personal status. In making Yingzhi poem, founds a country the meteorology the peaceful prosperous times to unify, melts into own feeling to the ideal realization during, and not only comes the flattery with the void literary flourishes to flatter attaches, says a word although is magnificent, but certainly not excessively carves, moreover returns Tradition, has displayed the spirited upward positive spiritual style.