新乐府名义辨析

Distinguish and Analysis for the Name of New Yuefu

“新乐府”一称,不仅在当时有其强烈的时代涵义,而且在“五四”时期和20世纪50年代、60年代中国社会的特定背景下更被赋予了特定的理解,因而其本来面目反渐趋模糊。时至今日,它已成为有待辨明的含混而复杂的概念。为厘清新乐府与元白诗派的成立之间的关系,有必要先对其名义作一界定。而对新乐府名义的辨析和界定,需要结合乐府诗的历史发展(尤其是其在唐代的新变),既要以元白等当事者的阐说为核心,同时又不能忽略对郭茂倩等后代乐府研究者意见的比照参考。所谓新乐府的“新”,需从四个方面的约定性上加以界定;从这四个方面的约定性上,可以将“新乐府”一称由最广至最狭划分为四个层次。

New Yuefu has not only the strong meaning of era at that time, but also been given specific understanding under Chinese social specific background in the May Fourth Movement period and the fifties and sixties in twentieth century. So, its true colors is gradually fuzzy. Even to this day, it has become a complicated concept remained to distinguish. In order to clarify the relations between New Yuefu and Yue Baishi , it is necessary to define its name first. The distinguish and definition of New Yuefu needs to combine its historical development . It should regard the explaining and saying of Yuan Bai etc. as the core, but, at the same time, it can't neglect the opinions of researchers in later times. So - called net is needed to define from four respects. Accordingly, New Yuefu can be divided to four levels from the narrow to the widest.