试论隋炀帝在南北文化交融过程中的作用

The Important Role of Sui Yangdi in the Course of Integrating the Southern and Northern Cultures

隋高祖虽然在军事上、政治上完成了统一南北的大业，但是并没有使关陇军事豪族、山东旧族和江左士族这三股具有深厚而独特社会文化传统的势力在文化上统一起来，隋高祖在位时对山东旧族、江左士族推行的压制和打击政策，更阻碍了三方归一的文化融合过程。然而，这种状况在隋炀帝嗣位后就得到了相当程度的改观。他不但一改其父一贯排斥山东、江左文化的做法，致力于吸收、融合江左文化、山东文化，还躬自实践，以其虚怀若谷的态度、勤奋创作的精神，融南北诗风之长，取得了较大的诗歌创作成就，为初盛唐诗歌的健康发展做了必要的铺垫。但是，由于长期以来对炀帝生活作风、施政特点的成见，人们忽视了炀帝在文化建设、诗风融合方面的贡献，所以本文从现存史料中钩沉索隐，旨在阐述隋炀帝在南北文化融合过程中的重要作用，尽可能恢复此段文化史。

Sui Gaozu, the first emperor of the Sui Dynasty, unified China militarily and politically, but he failed to merge the Shandong aristocracy and the Jiangzuo nobility. In fact, he attacked them and suppressed their cultures. Sui Yangdi, Sui Gaozu's successor, reversed this situation by absorbing and integrating the Shandong culture and Jiangzuo culture. In addition, Sui Yangdi combined the merits of the southern and northern poetry styles and achieved considerable success in his own poetry writing. He paved the way for poetry development in the Early and High Tang.