挽歌诗:魏晋文人生命的哀歌

The elegiac poems-the mounful dirge for life of men of letters in Wei and Jin dynasties

用诗歌的形式来叩问死亡、抒发由此引发的忧伤 ,由来已久 ,中国古代的挽歌即其中之一种。挽歌起于执绋者的讴歌 ,本是送葬仪式的组成部分 ,但是自汉末起 ,挽歌的抒情功能被强化 ,开始在葬仪以外的场合流行起来。此后 ,魏晋文人不仅好唱挽歌 ,且自制新辞。文人挽歌诗往往带有自挽的性质 ,是特定时代的产物。陶渊明的《挽歌诗》堪称此类作品的千古绝唱。

It has long been a tradition to ponder about death and the mounful mood in the form of poetry.The ancient Chinese elegiac poems are of this kind of poetry.Originaly they were songs for funeral ceremony and then in the late Han Dynasty they were employed to convey people's emotion and became more popular.The men of letters in Wei and Jin dynasties Loved to sing mounful songs and wrote words of the songs.Their elegiac poems expressed their self-pity and were the products of the given time and society.The best of them can be found in Tao Yuanming's Elegiac Poems .