从作诗到“作韵”:和韵诗的变迁

A Trend from Composing a Poem to Arranging Rhymes: The History of Poems Written With Existing Rhymes

南朝梁、陈之前的和韵重点在和意而非和韵。和诗重视用韵的倾向出现在梁、陈时期,经唐、宋得到发展,尤其盛行于明、清时期。这种诗歌创作模式的产生与发展过程,也正是诗人对押韵行为投注越来越多的兴趣的过程。和诗不仅标志着诗歌功能由诗人自发的抒情言志向重视交际功能的倾斜,同时更引起诗歌构思的重大变化:预先规定的韵脚成为思维的起点,作诗成了“作韵”。这种创作方式的盛行,在某种程度上使古典诗歌呈现出虚假繁荣的局面。

Before Liang and Chen Dynasties, poets devoted much attention on the meanings of their works when they responded to one＇s poem with a poem. The trend of paying great attention to the rhymes of the poems appeared during Liang and Chen dynasties. Writing a poem with existing rhymes, poets must choose words according to the rhymes. So, poets after Tang Dynasty gradually turned from composing a poem to arranging rhymes. Thousands of poems were written after Tang, but the value of these poems was doubtful.