理想与现实:中唐文学家对农业经济的关注——以韩愈、白居易、元稹为例

Ideal and Reality:Concern over Agricultural Economy by Mid——Tang Writers-The Cases of Han Yu,Bai Ju-yi and Yuan Zhen

中唐社会变动时期,许多士大夫提出要进行经济改革,以恢复唐代经济,韩愈、白居易和元稹是其中三位较有代表性的人物。他们都重视农业生产,十分关心农业经济,并且提出了许多解决农业经济贫困的方法和措施。不过由于仕途与思想旨趣各不相同,三人对农民关切的视角并不完全一致。韩愈深受儒家思想的影响,特别关注农业经济的贫困;白居易期盼圣人政治的到来,提出的措施过于理想化;以达到贞观、开元之治为目的元稹,对社会的认识比较深入全面,提出了不少切实可行的措施。

In social turbulence in mid-Tang Dynasty, many literati and officialdom proposed economic reform to restore the economy, three representatives of whom were Han Yu, Bai Ju-yi and Yuan Zhen. They all emphasized agricultural production and agricultural economy and advanced many methods to solve impoverished agricultural economy. Due to differences in their official career and spiritual inclinations, however , they differed in their concern about farmers. Han Yu, profoundly affected by Confucian thought, paid close attention to impoverished agricultural economy; Bai Ju-yi, aspiring to sage politics, proposed measures which were excessively ideal ; Yuan Zhen, aiming at prosperity of Zhenguan and Kaiyuan, had a deep and comprehensive understanding of the society and put forward many feasible measures.