药与魏晋南北朝山水诗之关系

Discussion of the Relationship Between Medicinal Herbs and Landscape Poetry During the Mediaeval Times

文章指出,药与魏晋南北朝时期山水诗的兴起与日渐成熟有密切关系。出于养生和消疾的需要,服药之举与采药之行成为魏晋南北朝时人追奉的风尚,成为他们重要的生活内容。为满足服药之需,人们“不远千里”,“穷诸名山,泛沧海”以采药石,山水在满足时人药石之需的同时亦培养和提高了他们的山水之趣,药因此与山水及山水诗有了直接的联系。东晋,尤其是在晋宋之交,服药与采药的活动极为频繁且更加地普遍化,中国士人山水审美情趣亦于此时得以确立,而山水审美情趣的形成,是山水诗发展的基础。

This paper points out that medicinal herbs are closely related to the vigorous emergence and gradual maturity of the landscape poetry during the Mediaeval Times in China. In order to shake off disease and maintain good health, people at that time were crazy about gathering and taking a medicinal herb named Hanshisan, which is composed of amethyst, sulphur, and so on. They made light of trekking a long distance to pick it from mountains, lakes, rivers and islands, which enhanced their interest in landscape. As a result, there existed a direct connection between medicinal herbs, rural landscape, and landscape poetry. Especially, by the end of Jin Dynasty and at the beginning of Song Dynasty, people frequently gathered the medicinal herb and took it quite often. It was at that time that Chinese scholars＇ aesthetic interest in rural landscape was established, while the cultivation of their aesthetic taste of landscape formed the basis of the development of landscape poetry.