谢章铤为台湾府教谕刘家谋所作序跋传记祭文之讨论——兼论谢章铤的古文

On Preface and Postscript,Biographies and Elegiac Prose Written by Xie Zhang-ting for Liu Jia-mou who Served as a Formal Teacher Assigned by the Government——Also on Classical Chinese Literature of Xie Zhang-ting

长乐谢章铤诗词古文兼工,古文最著。道光末,谢章铤与侯官刘家谋定交,诗词多有倡酬。刘家谋往台湾府任教谕,同治初卒于任上。刘家谋卒后,谢章铤为作序、跋、传记、祭文多篇。这些古文表达两人的情谊,以及谢氏对闽海时政的关注。谢章铤这些古文固然体现他的古文观,即修身养气,读书穷理,修辞立诚,而较之作者早期的古文更为务实。谢章铤十分赞赏高澍然的古文,又指出高氏古文缺少"长江大河万怪皇惑"的境界;其实谢氏的古文虽然较高氏务实,但仍然未能达到这一境界。把高澍然一派的古文推向这一境界的,似只有金门林树梅能胜其任。

Xie Zhang-ting from Changle excels in both poems and classical Chinese, which the author values the later. In the last years of Daoguang Reign, Xie Zhang-ting became a friend of Liu Jiamou from Houguan and had frequent poem interchanges. Later Liu Jia-mou went to Taiwan serving as a formal teach- er assigned by the government and died on the post at the early years of Tongzhi Reign. After Liu died, Xie Zhang-ting wrote several preface and postscript, biographies and elegiac prose for him. The essays demonstrate the friendship between the two and Xie＇ s concern about the situation of Fujian Coastline. This classics of Xie obviously embodies his viewpoint on classical Chinese, i. e., self-cultivating, reading and exploring Li, and Refining language and establish truth, which is more practical than his early classical Chinese writings.