“骈文非体裁”辨

On Rhythmical and Ornate Prose

严格说来,对古人通常称为"骈俪"、"骈四俪六"的骈文性质,学界缺乏一个明确的认识。从骈文的创作演变历史和历代人们的有关论述和文章选集来看,与其说骈文是一种与诗、词、奏等相对的一种体裁,不如说它是一种特殊的言说方式。正是作为后者,它广泛地存在于历代各种体裁的文章中:赋、连珠之中有骈俪,令、状之中亦有骈俪。而能得心应手地使用这种言说方式的人们被冠之以骈文家,具有浓厚骈俪色彩的文章则被称之为骈文。

Strictly speaking,in the academic field,there lacks clear understanding of the nature of rhythmic and ornate style of prose.From the evolution and the relevant discussion and collections of essays,we would rather say that such rhythmic and ornate prose is a kind of special diction instead of a literary style.It is just the former that has existed in the articles of various genres like Fu（ornate essay） and Ling（lyrics） in which there is rhythm and ornateness.And the persons who are good at using such style are called parallel prose writers and the articles with the dense color of parallelism are called parallel essays.