初唐史官对“文儒”的认识

Views of Historians in Early Tang Dynasty on "Scholar Confucians"

作为知识渊博、思维缜密的学者型文人,初唐史官在《晋书》等史书中经常运用"文儒"称谓历史上的一些受到帝王重视的文人,其中隐含了他们对"文儒"的特殊认识。在这些认识中,既包含了文人人格的新趋向,同时兼具变革梁陈绮靡柔弱文风的意义。这说明在处于南北文化逐步交融的初唐,史官通过回顾历史总结经验,以"文儒"这一全新的文人形态预示了未来时代的文化走向。

Famous for their learned knowledge and rigorous thinking, historians in early Tang Dynasty frequently referred to some historical scholars who had found favor with the rulers of their time as Scholar Confucians （Wenru） in The Book of Jin and other historical works. The title of Scholar Confucians mirrored the historians＇ views on these scholars, which, in turn, reflected the new development in the character of literary scholars as well as preluded the reform against the flashy and feminine literary style typical of the Liang and Chen periods. Hence, the historians in early Tang Dynasty when the cultures of the South and the North started to integrate have pointed out the direction of cultural development by reviewing on historical events and experiences.