唐诗蜡烛意象探幽

A Survey of the Candle Images of the Tang Poems

唐代有近七百篇写到蜡烛的诗。由于当时蜡烛价值不菲,且它的出现是在夜晚这一特殊时空,其本身形态、光线等又具有某些特色,所以在诗中蜡烛意象产生了富贵化、女性化、温情化、悲情化等倾向。同时,蜡烛意象蕴含了越来越强烈的主观情感,至中晚唐,烛意象的表现趋于成熟,出现人格化意象。

The paper explores the candle images in the Tang poems and points out that there were tendencies of rich man images, female images, tenderness images and melancholy images and more and more subjective feelings at the same time. In the time of the mid and later Tang, candle imagery became mature and personified images were seen.