关于《文心雕龙》论文不及陶渊明之问题

AN ANALYSIS OF WHY TAO YUAN-MING WAS NOT MENTIONED IN HIS BOOK CARVING A DRAGON AT THE CORE OF LITERATURE

《文心雕龙》不及陶渊明,乃其论文以东晋末年为封域使然,而时代风气及作者好恶等外部因素无关。学术界至今仍多有不明此而从“外部”找原因者,其或认为在这一点上刘勰之识力不及钟嵘与萧统。细究之,问题恐怕亦与是书本身有关,即《时序》篇“略举大较”而提及“王、袁联宗”、“颜、谢重叶”等,影响了人们这样之追问:《文心雕龙》论文不及陶渊明,是否与其体例有关?

In his book Carving a Dragon at the Core of Literature Liu Xie does not mention Tao Yuan-ming. That is because Liu Xie's essays on Qiterature have been confined to the historical period of time that comes to a close in the last few years of the East Jin Dynasty but have nothing to do with the vogue Liu Xie's times and wile Liu Xie's preference. In the academic circle there have bean rome scholars who to not quite understand the above-stated reason and who have tried to find answers to it from'exterior factors'. And it is quite probable that some of them think Liu Xie's cognitive ability is not as good as that of Zhong Rong and Xiao Tong. To make an inrestigation of this problem town to the last detail, we may find answers in the contents of Liu Xie's book. My quextion is :Does the layout of Carving a Dragon at the Core of Literature exert any influence on scholar's deep ponderation over why Tao Yuang-ming is not mentioned?