礼:中国文学伦理学关键词——兼论《文心雕龙》与中国文学伦理学的早期发展

Ceremony: Key Word of Chinese Literary Ethics——Also on Wenxindiaolong and Early Development of Chinese Literary Ethics

中国是礼仪之邦,礼义渗透到中国人生活的方方面面。在早期的观念中,礼分三个层面,相应地,中国早期的文学伦理学思想也有三个层面。最大的礼是"天地之别",天尊地卑,理所当然,文学要遵从天地之序;把天地之序推衍到人间,就成了"人伦之序",文学要厚人伦美教化;进入人与自身的层面,要求调节个人情感,文学则要求节制情感抒发。《文心雕龙》秉承中国礼义文化的基本精神,以礼立体,以礼论文,是中国文学伦理学的早期发展形态。

China has long been known as the'land of ceremony and propriety',and the ceremony permeates all the respects of Chinese life. In the early concept,the ceremony has three levels,and correspondingly,there were there levels in the early stage of Chinese literary ethics. The highest ceremony is'the difference of heaven and earth',with the principle that the heaven is above and the earth is below. Naturally,literature follows this heaven- earth sequence. To put this sequence into man's world becomes'the sequence of human beings and ethics',and literature enlightens it by education. Concerning human being and itself,individual emotions should b adjusted,and literature limits the explosion of feelings. Wenxindiaolong inherits the spirit of Chinese literary ethics,with ceremony as its style,and with ceremony as its argumentation as well. It is the early stage of Chinese literary ethics.