儒家语言审美在新时期作家中的三重境界

Triple States of Confucian Language Aesthetics and Its Impact on Contemporary Writers

中国文化很早就把语言看作是生命本质的外在表达,在中和审美意识规约下儒家在对语言与生命关系思考中奠定了其节制、刚健的基本语言审美要求。儒家讲究人生修养与生命境界的提升,语言也会随着生命境界的提升不断中和不断超越显现不同境界。孔子的人生修养历程标示了儒家不同人生阶段的理想生命状态,民族文化、民族生命具有传承性,儒家语言审美也在新时期作家中呈现三重美的境界。文章以阿城、李锐、刘恒、杨绛、汪曾祺、巴金为例阐明了儒家语言审美在新时期作家中的三重境界。

Language is an expression of life. The Confucian language aesthetics is a result of the pursuits for temperance and energetic language based on the relationship between language and life. Confucianism stresses personality cultivation. Language will show different states as life goes through different states. Confucius represents the ideal life state in Confucianism. As a result of inheritability of national culture, the Confucian language aesthetics is reflected in triple states in contemporary writers. This article is a study of the triple states of the Confucian language aesthetics as are reflected in contemporary writers like A Cheng, Li Rui, Liu Heng, Yang Jiang, Wang Zeng-qi, and Ba Jin.