中国古代诗人的牧童情结

On Ancient Poets' Complex of Shepherd Boy in China

在中国古代诗歌园地中,有不少以牧童为题材的诗歌。中国古代诗人之所以钟爱牧童的理由有二:一是牧童题材诗中人牛相与相恃、自谦自足的生活状态满足了中国古代诗人对理想生活的幻想;二是牧童的形象特征暗合了中国古代诗人对自身理想人格与性情的想象。诗人们精心构筑的明净、纯朴的童稚的世界,不仅让自己,也让时人焦躁不安的心灵得以藏、游、息、修,同时也让千年万代以降的成人们拥有了一个可以永远回望的精神家园,这或许就是中国古代的诗人创作牧童诗的初衷所在。

There are many poems about shepherd boy in China＂ ancient poetry. The following two are the reasons. On the one hand, the livng situations created by these poems meet ancient poets＂ imagination of ideal life. On the other hand, the shepherd boys＂ images satisfy ancient poets＂ imagination of their own ideal personality and temperaraent. The clear and pure children＇s world delicately and elaborately created by the poets not only makes the poets themselves and the anxious contemporaries hold, wander, rest and cultivate their souls but also presents the following generation a retrospectable spiritual world, which may be the motivation for them to create these poems.