人品污下而恶归焉——宋之问人品的接受情形诠释

A Discussion on the Accepting of Sone Zhiwen's Personal Character

宋之问是初唐武后时期有代表性的台阁文人,为律诗的定型作出了重要贡献,自唐以降历代诗评家充分肯定了他在唐代近体诗演变过程中的关键作用,但对其人品的评论,情形就大不相同:一方面肯定他是一位无行文人,其人品确实“不足为人道”,慨叹其诗品与人品之相悖,命运之悲惨;另一方面对某些具体问题,各执己见,各陈其说,莫衷一是。诗评家千余年来对于宋之问人品和个别问题所持的态度和看法,透视出他们对其人品的具体而微的真实接受情形。

Sone Zhiwen was a representative palace writer in the early Tang Dynasty who had made great contribution for the set of the standard verse. Ever since Tang Dynasty, verse critics approved his key function in the development of modern-style verses in Tang Dynasty, while called his personal character in question: on one hand they affirmed that Sone Zhiwen had ill moral character and they sighed with regret on the gap between his achievement on verse and his personal character; on the other hand they were unable to agree on some issues. The accepting of Sone Zhiwen's personal character was reflected through the viewpoints and attitudes towards him by the verse critics in more than one thousand years.