韩愈的交游与古文之兴

On Han Yu's Circle of Friends and the Rise of Ancient Chinese Prose

本文从韩愈的交游重新审视古文和古文运动,认为:柳宗元作古文不像韩愈那样弘扬古道,而是以自己的生活、思想、性情为文,缺少与韩愈共倡古文的自觉。韩门弟子李翱趣味重在修史,张籍为韩愈所重却乐与白居易、元稹以诗为务,皇甫的好新奇与古文的传古道有所不同。张籍弃俗而从好古文的寂寞之道以及李翱的不合时俗而学古文,可见古文处世的艰难。在韩愈的其他交游中,孟郊创作的趣味在诗,白居易、元稹、刘禹锡重诗且言不称古文,同样说明古文在当时声势的微弱。

The paper believes that Liu Zong-yuan, didn't like Han Yu, wrote prose according to his life, idea and disposition. So he lacked the consciousness of promoting prose with Han Yu together. Li Ao, one of Han Yu's students, paid more attention to history, while Zhang Ji liked poems better, and Huang Fushi preferred new things. We may also find the difficulties of prose's development from Zhang Ji and Li Ao's experience of learning ancient prose. Besides these, among Han Yu's other friends, Meng Jiao interested in poem-writing. Bai Ju-yi, Yuan Zhen and Liu Yu-xi laid stress on poems and claimed that they wouldn't talk about prose. All these facts showed that prose was weak in the society.