从“贵无论”到“声无哀乐”:魏晋士人对乐舞语义功能的重构

From the“Theory of Nihility”to“Music without Emotion”:How Literati in Wei~ Jin Period Reconstructed the Semantic Function of Dance Accompanied by Music

在魏晋玄学影响之下,“有无之辨”成了魏晋时期重要的议题。“以无为本”的“贵无论”触发了魏晋士人们对乐舞的语义功能新的思考与实践,名士们以超越“礼”——寻求“道”——达于“无”的路径,实现了对两汉儒教传统乐舞美学思想的超越与突破,使乐舞美学从礼乐合一的思想束缚中挣脱出来,将对美学思想的探寻带入乐舞艺术内部世界中。

Under the influence of the metaphysics in the Wei~Jin Period,the“debate of being and non-being”became an important topic in the period.The“theory of nihility”based on the idea of“nothingness”provoked the literati during the Wei~Jin Period to rethink and practice the semantic functions of dance accompanied by music.Following the route of going beyond the“rituals”– seeking the“path”– and arriving at“nothingness”,prestigious literati had achieved transcendence and breakthrough from the traditional Confucian aesthetics about dance accompanied by music originating from the Western and Eastern Han dynasties,liberating the aesthetics of dance accompanied by music from the integration of ritual and music and bringing the aesthetic ideas into an exploration of the inner world of the dance accompanied by music.