南朝文笔大家任昉

Ren Fang:Litterateur in Southern Dynasty

在黄河三角洲的历史上,南朝齐梁之际的任昉是与沈约齐名的一代辞宗巨匠。在任昉的思想体系中,典型地体现出中古时期最突出的儒释道三者结合的特征。他率性任己,尚接魏晋风神;同时恪守礼法,秉性淳孝;且接受世风的浸染,信奉佛教。任昉渊博能文,在齐梁文坛赢得了鼎盛的声名,又热衷于对后进的提携称赏。他历仕三朝,因此被世人所讥讽,但他又能严守古循吏的理想,治平安民不倦。

In the time of Qi and Liang in Nan Dynasty,Ren Fang was an excellent litterateur equally famous with Shen Yue. The ideology system of Ren Fang was the representative embodiment of integrating the Confucianism,Buddhism and Taoist school. He did whatever pleases himself,inherited the manner of Wei and J in Dynasty. He observed Confucian convenance and naturally filial. He also accepted the influence of public morals,embracing the Buddhism. Ren Fang was encyclopedical and possessing multifarious faculty except in literature. He won an awfully fine reputation and was zealous in promoting the less advanced. He secured the official position in the Song, Qi and Liang Dynasties,therefore was mocked by later generations. But at the same time he rigorously complied the ideality of being a kind official,and was tireless in stabilizing the society and making the dumb millions have a better life.