班固笔下的屈原

Qu Yuan as Described by Ban Gu

班固３０岁以前，精读《离骚》，得其神韵，著作《离骚经章句》一卷，称屈原“痛君不明，信用群小，国将危亡，忠诚之情，怀不能已，故作《离骚》”，这是班固的基本观点。４５岁后将其献上时，增写后序一篇，猛批刘安，对屈原亦颇有微词。两序的差异，主要是作者生存状态的变化所致。

Before 30 years of age, Ban Gu wrote a volume of A Philological Study of Li Sao (Li Sao Jing Zhang Ju) after getting the romantic charm of this immortal work by having done an intensive reading of it. This volume declares that Qu Yuan composed Li Sao to his king as he ″couldn′t swerve from his loyalty to his king though he saw clearly the muddleheadidness of the sovereign of his, who made the mean people hold sway and thus put the state′s exixtence in peril.″ This is Ban Gu′s principle idea. After he was 45 years of age, Ban Gu added a postscript in which he levels severe criticisms at Liu An and also passes veiled criticism of Qu Yuan. The difference between the volume and the postscript results from the changes of Ban Gu′s life conditions, but is not enough to alter his principle idea about Qu Yuan.