商贾诗源流初探

A Preliminary Stucly of the Evolution of Merchant Poems

本文论述了商贾诗的内容和形式的演变规律。内容上,对商人和商业由贬抑到褒扬,渐渐加大了褒扬的成分。形式上,由附属于其它诗歌到独立成体,获得了姓名权;由五字四句到五字或七字上十句乃至几十句。历史上,经历了从萌生到发展到成熟到消泯的全过程。

This article deals with the content and form of merchant poems evolution rules. In the content, those merchant poems used to belittle merchants and commerce; however, gradually they have enlarged the ingredients of compliments. In the form, the poems, which developed from being attached to other poems to an independent component, have obtained the right to name. At the beginning, they were in the form of four sentences with five characters in each one, but now ten sentences （or more than that） with five or seven characters in each one. The history has witnessed their whole procedure, from sprouting to development, to maturity and to perdition.