中国文人五、七言诗产生新论

A New Identifying Discussion of the Sources of Chinese Literati's Five-character Poems and Seven-character Poems

中国诗歌杂有五、七言或民间五、七言歌谣,溯其源则年代久远,而中国文人五言诗的产生则在西汉初,并非始于东汉班固的《咏史诗》,中国文人七言诗的雏形也产生于西汉,并非始于曹丕的《燕歌行》。文人五、七言诗发展至汉末,各种艺术技巧基本成熟,它上承诗骚体,下启永明体,惠及近体,完成了中古诗歌的重大转型,对后世格律诗的产生做出了重要的贡献。

The five-character or seven-character poems proper or folk songs which existed in the ancient Chinese poetry can separatedly traced back to much earlier sources than the time presently supposed to originate from.In the thesis the source of five-character poems by literati proves to inially form in the peoms at the beginning of the Earlier Han Dynasty instead of being A Poem of Idle Reflection on History by BAN Gu,a general and man of letters in the Latter Han Dynasty.Likewise,the primitive form of seven-character poems by literati began to exist in the same earlier dynasty rather than in the Latter Han Dynasty,rather than in what is gerenally supposed to be the poem style Yan Ge Xing by CAO Zhi.When five-character poems and seven-character poems by iterati evolved to the end of latter Han Dynasty,the various artistic techniques basically became mature.These two forms of poetry made an important contribution to the production of metrical poetry by inheriting some characteristics of peomes in The Book of Songs and Lisao,by initiating the syle of yongming poetry,and benefiting metrical poetry,thus completing a major transformation of medieval poetry.