论我国早期散文的特点与贡献

THE CHARACTERISTICS AND CONTRIBUTION OF THE EARLY PROSE IN CHINA

甲骨卜辞、《周易》、《尚书》是我国早期散文。甲骨卜辞虽属萌芽状态的散文 ,但在用词、句式以及记事等方面为散文的发展奠定了基础。《周易》属雏形期散文 ,叙事条理性强、善于说理、有了结构布局、语言的运用有了很大进步。《尚书》是散文趋于成型的重要标志 ,其文体的区别开始显现 ,篇章结构、语言表现艺术等方面较之以前散文更为成熟 ,因而自《尚书》开始 ,我国才有了真正意义上的散文。

Divine remarks on Jiagu(inscription on bones or tortoise shells of the Shang Dynasty),Zhouyi and Shangshu are all the early proses in China.Divine remarks on Jiagu,which are the proses in the bud,lay the foundation of prose development in the sense of diction,sentence patterns and narration.Zhouyi is the prose in the embryonic form,which is clear in narration,adept in argument and well organized in structure arrangement,and in which a preat progress is also made in language application.In Shangshu,which is the symbol of well developed prose,distinction of style begins to appear,and the art of text structure,language expression,etc.tend to be mature.So there is the real prose in China since Shangshu on.