“孤蓬惊沙”与公孙大娘舞剑器——唐代书学考论之一

"Isolated Grass,Quavering Sand" and Aunt Gong-sun's Sword Dance——Textual Research on Calligraphy in Tang Dynasty

唐代关于张旭学书的批评意象共有三组:公孙大娘舞剑器;公主与担夫争路;孤蓬自振、惊沙坐飞。张旭观"孤蓬惊沙"与观公孙大娘剑器舞是两次互不相关的学书经历。唐人沈亚之通过艺术想象将二者绾合在一起,影响了《新唐书.文艺传》等后世典籍的历史书写,递相转录,以讹传讹,导致叠床架屋,愈加离奇。

There exist three groups of images in the Tang Dynasty in the critique of Zhang Xu studying calligraphy,including Aunt Gong-sun performing the sword dance,princess and porter fighting over the road,isolated grass displaying vigor and quavering sand flying.The paper argues that the first and last group of image refers to two irrelevant experiences of Zhang Xu in learning calligraphy,while Shen Yazhi in the Tang Dynasty binds the two and influences the historical description in later books such as the Literature Biography in The New Book of Tang which is continually transcribed and adds far more weirdness into the story.