神助:文才禀赋性特质的灵异演绎

Miracle: an Interpretation of Endowments of Literary Talent Under the Surface of Spirits

从魏晋开始,中国文学史中便不断出现类似刘勰梦攀锦绣、江淹梦索笔等文学关乎神助的传说。其主要形态在神梦之外,还有神遇、神授等。理论界过去对这个言说系统关注不多。事实上,这些与文人才子相关的奇闻异事皆流行于文才崇拜之际,皆关乎文人才子的天资与灵气,它实则是在以一种非理论的"神助传说"形态演绎文学之才所具有的审美品质:文才虚灵而神异,可资创生幻化;文才源自禀赋,如得自天,不可更定,因而珍稀瑰奇。

As early as in the period of the Wei and Jin in the history of Chinese literature, there constantly appeared legends of miracles such as Liu Xie＇s dream of climbing up the brocade and Jiang Yan＇s dream of searching for Bi. The main forms of these legends are divine dreams, spiritual perception, divine conferring and so on so forth. The theoretical circle in the past paid little attention to this discourse system. In fact, these fantastic stories about talented scholars become prevalent at the time of adoring the literary talents, for they reflect the endowment and nimbus of the scholars. It is a kind of non-theoretical form of ＂miraculous legend＂ that shows the aesthetic characteristics of literary talents： visionary and miraculous, constructing and illusioned. And the literary talents possess the quality of gift, innateness and stability, thus becoming rare and magnificent.