《迎旭轩韵文辑存》中的咏史诗

On the Epics in A Collection of Verse Composed in the Rising-Sun-Greeting Study

羊春秋《迎旭轩韵文辑存》是一朵馥郁明时的奇葩。其中最引人注目也最耐人寻味的当首推咏史诗。它以韵文的形式、史论的笔法,对历代人物事件作了全新的评判,主要表现为:驱除世俗尘埃,透视帝王本质;基于人民立场,评说千秋功罪;着眼社会现实,总结历史经验。因而它既是对传统韵文的继承发展,又是对当代文坛的杰出贡献。

A Collection of Verse composed in the Rising Sun Greeting Study written by Yang Chunqiu towers above all other works of this kind of his time, and the most striking and thought provoking part of the collection are the Epics in it. In the Epics, events and people of different dynasties are given fresh comments in rhyme and in the style of a historical essay. The author of the collection discards worldly views, dissects the nature of the emperors of different dynasties, evaluates the merits and demerits of every dynasty from the viewpoint of the people, and summarizes historical experience in terms of social reality. The Epics are not only the inheritance and development of traditional verse but a remarkable contribution to the contemporary literature.