晁迥与宋初文学

Chao Jiong and Literature in Early Song Dynasty

晁迥是宋代文学世家晁氏家族的奠基人,早年写作白体诗,同时又追求一种“洪丽”、“雄富”的文学理想;他与杨亿是志同道合的僚友,其西昆体诗折射出他“修洁”的人格情操,是当时宫廷政治斗争的曲折反映。其漫长的文学活动经历了宋初主要的文学浪潮,基本上代表了宋初文学的健康发展方向,并且在某些方面超出了学界对宋初文学的一般认识;其诗文与时推移,递有嬗变,把他单纯地当作白体诗人或西昆派都显偏颇。

Chao Jiong is the founder of the Chao Family, well-known for its terrific literary achievements in the Song Dynasty. In his early time, he aspires after works in powerful and ornate style while he learns to write poems in Bai Juyi’s style. He is a close friend and colleague of Yang Yi, leader of the Xikun School, and they cherish the same ideals. His poems in Xikun style indistinctly show his virtue and the political struggle in the court. His long literary activities represent the right development trend in literature in early Song Dynasty, and show some characteristics beyond the general comprehension of academia on literature in early Song Dynasty. Chao Jiong’s poetry and prose had changed again and again. Hence,it is in correct to regard him as a poet in Bai Juyi’s style or a writer in Xikun style.