《西园雅集》——文人画家的理想家园

<Learned Gathering in the Western Garden>—the ideal garden for the literati and painters

在中国文化史上，自魏晋以降，伴随着知识阶层的人文觉醒，文人雅集活动可谓代不绝踪，著名的兰亭修禊姑且不论，其它如张彦远在《历代名画记》中提到其曾祖魏国公与司徒汧公“因其同僚，遂成久要，并列藩阃，齐居台衡，雅会襟灵，琴书相得，汧公博古多艺，穷精蓄奇，魏晋名踪，盈于箧笥，许询、逸少，经年共赏山泉，谢傅、戴逵，终日惟论琴书”，至后“更叙能旧，遂契记忘言，远同庄惠之交，近得苟陈之会……约与记客，皆高谢荣宦，琴尊自乐，终日陶然，士流望莫及也。”

Learned Gathering in the Western Garden °Φis said to bepainted by Ligong Ling, which describes a picture dwelled uponby the people with great relish: a number of famous literati andpaintes,such as Su Shi,Mi Fu, Huangting Jian and Ligong Ling,assembled in the house of emporor's son-in-law, who madepoetry, painting, handwriting, speaking and playing the musi-cal instrument at free. It becomes a traditional topic of paintingfor the artists in the successive dynasties with great influence.The author make a rather deep analysis to this cultural phe-nomena in the angle of sociology.