禅宗与日本五山文学

The Zen Sect and the Five-Mountain Literature

禅宗从中国传入日本以后,在武士阶级和幕府政权的保护下得到了迅速的发展。以五山禅僧为主体的汉诗人通过禅宗接受中国优秀文化,掀起汉文学风潮,产生了主导当时日本文坛的"五山文学"。五山文学完成了从"偈"到"诗"的演进,推动了早期汉诗的嬗变,在一定程度上显示出主流文学的特点,成为日本汉文学发展史上的一个重要发展阶段。所以禅宗的世俗化,普及的不仅是宗教的禅、哲学的禅,而且是文化的禅、文学的禅。

Since the Zen sect had been introduced from China to Japan, it got fast development under the protection of warrior's class and Shogunate regime. By accepting China's outstanding culture through the way of Zen sect, the group of Chinese poets which was mainly formed by five mountain Zen monks , aroused Chinese literature agitation , then there emerged the 'Five-Mountain literature' which took the leading position in Japanese literary field at that time.The Five-Mountain literature finished evolution from 'Ji (Budhist's chant or hymn)' to 'poem',promoted the transmutation of the early Chinese poem and demonstrated the characteristics of the mainstream literature to a certain extent, therefore, formed an important developing stage in Japan's Chinese literature development history. So the secularization of the Zen sect, the one that was popularized is not only the Zen of the religion, the Zen of philosophy, but also the Zen of the culture and the Zen of literature.