魏晋名士与古琴

Celebrities in WEi-Jin Dynasties and the Musical Instrument Guqin

魏晋时期,古琴得到了魏晋名士们的青睐,从“建安七子”到“竹林七贤”再到两晋的大批名士,或琴书自娱,或琴酒消忧,又或鸣琴山林,以琴交友,士林好琴爱琴,蔚然成风。大量的证据表明,琴和琴乐在魏晋名士们的生活中占有十分重要而特殊的地位,影响和体现着他们的精神世界和人格风度,并最终成为“魏晋风度”“名士风流”的特征之一。

The traditional Chinese musical instrument guqin won much favor with the celebrities in Wei and Jin dynasties. Numerous evidences and facts indicate that guqin and guqin music exerted great impact on these celebrities,shaping and reflecting their spirital world and personal style, and guqin thus became one of the indicators as a tasteful celebrity. This paper tends to look into this cultural phenomenon from the perspectives of music,literature as well as that of philosophy to detect the factors that contributed to this phenomenon and in the mean time,to reveal the deep social significance behind it.