试官们的生活与视界——《同文馆唱和诗》研究系列四

Life and Horizon of Imperial Examiners in Song Dynasty——Tongwen Guan Antiphon Poetry Study Series IV

《同文馆唱和诗》,是试官们在长时间、狭窄封闭空间中特殊的工作生活与精神活动的重现与提升。试官们不仅用次韵唱和将单调重复的较艺衡文劳动诗意化,而且把唱和当作是与清谈、朗诵一样的娱乐消遣方式。每个诗人对锁院生活现状的喜忧态度不同,每个诗人的精神都会超越锁院而延伸到过去和未来,曹辅的从军经历以及邓忠臣的旧隐生活,引起诗人们的共同兴致,锁院因此而连接起塞外风云与湖湘山水;蔡肇的谈禅又勾画出别样的亦真亦幻的佛禅世界。

Tongwen Guan Antiphon Poetry is the poetry anthology which reproduces and promotes the special work, life and spiritual activities of the imperial examiners in their narrow and closed space. The imperial officials wrote poems with rhyme scheme and composed poems, and treated this as an amusing way to deal with the dull repetitive competition of arts and literature. Each poet of imperial examination held different attitude towards their lives, and each of them would spiritually surpass the imperial examination hall and extend into the past and future. Cao Fu＇s military story and Deng Zhongehen＇s hermit life generally encouraged the poets＇ interest. Thus the imperial examination hall was connected with the situation and landscape beyond the Great Wall. What＇s more, Cai Zhao＇s talk about Zen sketched a vivid Buddha world.