朱熹涉佛序跋文艺观探微

On the Literary and Artistic Outlook in Zhu Xi’s Preface and Postscript Concerning Buddhism

朱熹涉佛序跋在一定层面上反映了朱熹对文艺的深刻见解,概而论之约分三种,即人品立"诚"论、作品传"信"观和作品风格论。朱熹从作品人物和作家人品两方面传达他对"诚"的理解;又从考辨文献版本的差异,阐释文献字词句之真伪、异同等方面传达他重作品选本之真、信的文艺观念;还通过评点南上人、刘子翚、汤正仲等人之诗画作品传达了他对清雅平淡艺术风格的推崇。这些文艺观的阐发彰显出朱熹儒释会通的文化格局。

Zhu Xi’s prefaces and postscripts to Buddhism reflect Zhu Xi’s profound opinions on literature and art in a certain level,which can be summarized into three categories:the theory of“sincerity”in character,the concept of“faith”in works and the theory of works style.Zhu Xi considers his understanding of“sincerity”from the perspectives of characters andwriters’character,and conveys his literary and artistic concepts of emphasizing the authenticity and faith of selected works through textual research on the differences of editions of documents and the authenticity and falseness of characters,words and sentences of documents,as well as his comments on poems and paintings by Nan Shangren,Liu Zihui and Tang Zhengzhong.He praised the elegant and plain artistic style.The elucidation of these literary and artistic concepts shows thecultural pattern of Zhu Xi’s Confucianism,Buddhism and Buddhism.