“文情”略论

On Composition and Emotion

作文与情感的关系,《诗经》最早涉及。之后,汉代有"情动于中而形于言"的观点,梁代刘勰的《文心雕龙》也有"情者,文之经"、"辞以情发"之说,而唐代柳冕提出的"文生于情"的观点最为著名。这些观点都不同程度地揭示了情感与写作的关系,强调了情感对写作的重要意义。由于文章是写给别人看的,因而文章中的情感与读者也就有了关系。这种关系,前人总结为"情生于文"。但"情生于文"却不易做到,是需要一定写作功底的,若注意"文情贵独",掌握一些表达情感的技巧,则"凡情之至者,其文未有不至者也。"

＂ The Book of Songs＂ touches upon the relationship between composition and emotion. Afterwards, there was the view that emotion is motivated from within and embodied in speech in Han Dynasty; Liu Xie in Liang Dynasty, in his ＂The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons＂, proposed that emotion is the longitude of literature and composition the expression of emotion; the most famous view was that literature stems from emotion, proposed by Liu Mian in Tang Dynasty. All these views reveal the relationship between emotion and writing to different degree, stressing the significance of emotion to writing. We write so that oth- ers can read, thus associating emotion in writing with our readers. Our predecessors sum up this relationship as emotion stems from writing, but it is easier said than done and requires writing skills. If we can pay attention to the fact that literary emotion is valuable in its uniqueness and grasp certain skills in expressing emotion, with sincere emotion it is impossible not to have a good piece of writing.