胡仔论黄庭坚其人其诗

Hu Zai’s Comments on Huang Tingjian and His Poems

胡仔首次将苏轼、黄庭坚与李白、杜甫并列,确立了宋诗与唐诗平分秋色的文学地位;否定了"苏黄争名"说;分析了黄庭坚的创新精神、某些句法和诗体本自杜甫、对仗句的工整和题画诗的传神、咏花诗的得失;对黄庭坚悉毁"不复淫欲饮酒食肉"的禁戒,从人性的本能角度表示深度理解。

This paper analyses Hu Zai’s comments on Huang Tingjian and Huang Tingjian’s poems. Huang Tingjian is the leader of Jiangxi poetry. Hu Zai highly compared Su Shi and Huang Tingjian as Li Bai and Du Fu for the first time. This shows that he not only completely approved achievements of Huang Tingjian’s poems, but also consented to the juxtapositional status between Song and Tang Poetry. He also negated argues of Su Shi and Huang Tingjian. Hu Zai affirmed the Huang Tingjian’s spirit of innovation, making relevant comments in view of Lv Benzhong’s excessive evaluations to Huang Tingjian, and pointed out that some of Huang Tingjian’s syntax and verse were influenced by Du Fu. He highly praised Huang’s antithesis sentence and his vivid painting poetry, making relevant comments on advantages and disadvantages of Huang’s Odes to Flowers. For Huang’s denying the forbidden of 'no longer lust wine meat', Hu Zai showed his deep understanding from the perspective of human’s instincts.