大唐才子山阴吴融事迹考略及其诗校释

Proofreading and Interpreting the Brief Biography of the Late Tang Talent Wu Rong from Shanyin and His Poems

大唐才子吴融里籍有山阴、萧山二说,今考定为山阴。初官有校书郎、掌书记歧说,今认定为掌书记。又据闻一多先生言其生年为唐宣宗大中四年(850),推知其进士及第时已年届不惑。此前“屡遭维絷”“久负屈声”之记载,当属实。明代高棅编选《唐诗品汇》,虽只收吴融诗七首,尚不及传世诗作的百分之三,但足以推翻传统诗评所言:“靡丽有余,而雅重不足”之结论。当然,亦足证高棅选家“法眼”之独具识辨力。此七首诗多写战事与被战争破坏的事物,颇具认识价值与诗歌创作的借鉴意义。又,明清交际间的文坛怪杰金圣叹《评点唐诗六百首》(浙江古籍出版社出版)亦收录吴融诗十二首。其中多咏浙江景物借以抒怀。今一并予以校释。

Wu Rong,a late Tang talent,was either from Shanyin or from Xiaoshan.In the current study,we look to the former.In the beginning,he is said to be responsible either for proofreading or for bookkeeping.This time we look to the latter.According to Wen Yiduo,he was born in 850 BC and we safely conclude that he became a Jinshi,a person who had passed the imperial examination,at 40.This justifies the anecdote that he had been prejudiced against and persecuted before.Gao Bing from Ming Dynasty only chose seven of Wu’s poems in Appreciating Tang Poems according to Classifications,less than 3% of those of Wu known to the world but sufficiently denying the traditional literary review stating“the poems are overdecorated and therefore lack of gravity and grace”.This shows Gao Bing had good insight with the excerpts.The seven poems are mainly concerned with wars and the war-destroyed world,which are of high understanding value and serve as a mirror to reflect poetic writings.In addition,Jin Shengtan,a geek of letters,added ten poems of Wu to Criticism of 600 Poems of Tan g,most of which were used to reveal inner feelings out of sceneries of what is today part of Jiangsu and Zhejiang.They are proofread and interpreted for the current purpose of discussion.