返景入深林:近现代骈文史名家名作举隅

The Last Radiance of the Setting Sun Shining on the Forest: Synecdoche of Famous Writers and Works on Parallel Prose in Modern Times

从辛亥革命到全面抗战之前,这个时期仍有一批文化人从事骈文写作,除了传统题材如哀祭、寿序、书序、信函、游记等外,还有政府通电、结社宣言、报刊发刊词等等。与现实生活较清代骈文有进一步联系。颇具影响的作家有樊增祥、屠寄、易顺鼎、李详、陈去病、饶汉祥、刘师培和黄侃等八人。无论如何,骈文的时代已经终结了,就骈体文的发展史而言,近现代以来的这些名家作品不过是回光返照而已。然而,这回光给文学史带来的一缕暖色,也毕竟是可贵的,必须客观地加以审视。

During the period of from the Revolution of 1911 until the Comprehensive Anti-Japanese War, there were some intellectuals still working on the writing in Parallel Prose, the theme of which is mainly about the notice and telegram of the government, the declaration of associations and the foreword to some periodicals besides some traditional themes such as about memorial ceremonies, birthday congratulations, books’ prefaces ,correspondences and travel notes. Compared with the themes in Qing Dynasty, those themes mentioned above are more closely related to the real life. There are eight most influential writers of Parallel Prose who are Fang Zengxiang, Tu Ji, Yi Shunding, Li Xiang, Chen Qubing, Rao Hanxiang, Liu Shipei and Huang Kan. Anyway, the age of Parallel Prose has ended. As far as the development history of Parallel Prose is concerned, those famous works and writers are just like the last radiance of the setting sun. Nevertheless, the last radiance makes the history of literature more bright, which is meritorious and must be valued objectively.