元兢三论

Three Issues about Yuan Jing

根据多种文献资料的分析,可推知初唐著名文人元兢是河南籍人士。这是从未有人论及的问题。比较上官仪和元兢的诗歌对偶理论,发现元兢才是初唐时期真正有创见的第一人,而上官仪的所谓"六对"、"八对"理论,很可能是宋人以讹传讹的不实之词。元兢提出的诗歌声律"换头"规则,解决了格律诗平仄反和正的"篇"的联系问题,其理论对诗歌写作实践产生了最为直接的、明显的影响,最终形成了武则天朝前期诗律定型的格局。这是他最重要的学术贡献。

Through analyses of multiple references and documents, a conclusion can be made that Yuan Jing, the famous scholar in early Tang dynasty, was born in Henan. This issue has never been brought up before. By comparing the antithesis theory made by Shangguan Yi and Yuan Jing in poetry, it can be easily seen that Yuan Jing was the first one who held new ideas in the early Tang dynasty. On the other hand, the so-called theories of ＂Six Antltheses＂ and ＂Eight Antitheses＂, as supposed to have been held by Shangguan Yi, might have been untrue hearsays of Song people. Yuan Jing invented the metric rules of ＂first word change＂ in poetic rhyming , which offered a solution to the issues of textual connection in the positive and reverse text with the level and oblique tones in the metric form. His theory had brought a most direct, clear influence upon the poetic writing practice and eventually finalized the poem rhyming pattern in Wu Zetian＇s time period. This is the major and the most important contribution of Yuan Jing.