中国原始诗歌韵律考辨——兼与周锡韦复先生商榷

A Study of Chinese Primitive Metre in Verse

针对周锡先生提出的原始诗歌无韵"的观点,笔者以上古音韵研究的成果为基础,对划属原始诗歌时期的商代甲骨文的韵文及相关文献进行考察,通过统计、分析表明:原始诗歌肯定有韵,尽管还不太规则和科学合理;也有其它韵律要素,主要是字数趋于整齐,节奏感明显。平仄作为中国诗歌韵律另一要素,原始诗歌则基本上没有意识;这是由当时语言和诗歌水平所决定的。笔者认为,原始诗歌不断与语言认识及表达的现有水平相抗衡,始终致力于寻求和构建合适的诗歌韵律,并使之不断趋于完善。

In view of Mr. zhou xifu's point of “primitive verse was blank verse' and on the basis of the rhyme and rhythm research fruits of acient times,through investigating the verse of inscriptions on bones or tortoise shells of the Shang Dynasty and other correlative literature,the anthor analyzes and draws a conclusion:primitive verse was rhythmic poetry, though it hadn't tonal patterns in classical Chinese poetry. The primitive verse was perfected continuously and laid a solid foundation of the first flourish of our country's classical poetry during the times of “the Book of songs”.