唐诗“南”“北”之分的可能性与论说限度

On the Possibility of “South-North” Demarcation of Tang Poetry and the Argumentation Limit

南方与北方,是自然地理空间,也是人文地理空间,同时与文学创作具有密切关系。1905年刘师培在《南北文学不同论》中讨论到唐代存在"北方之诗"与"南方之诗"的现象,值得进一步回应。其实这是讨论唐代文学地理学值得关注的切入点,也可作为研究唐代诗歌史的重要课题。唐代"北方之诗"与"南方之诗"无论看作一种理论性的抽象,或者看作一种现象叙述,都应从地理物质层面、社会学层面和观念意识层面进行综合分析,既注意唐诗中"北方之诗""南方之诗"存在之可能性,又注意两者之间的纠缠与互涵,进行辩证的、有限度的论说。

The South and the North are both physical geographical spaces and human geographical spaces with a close bearing on literary creations.In 1905,Liu Shipei explicated in his writing,On the Differences of Southern and Northern Literature,about the phenomena of“the northern poetry”and“the southern poetry”,which is worthy of further study and it is actually a breakthrough point for exploring the literary geography as well as an important research topic into the poetic history in Tang Dynasty.Viewed either as a theoretic abstraction or as a phenomenal description,both the“northern poetry”and“northern poetry”should be comprehensively analyzed from the aspects of geographical material,sociology and mentality with attention paid to both the possibility of the existence of the“northern poetry”and the“southern poetry”and the entanglement and mutual inclusion between them so as to conduct dialectical and measured argumentation.