琴意谁可听?(下)——欧阳修之琴与北宋士风

Who Shall Be Able to Fathom the Significance of Qin Music?The Qin Music of Ouyang Xiu and the E-thos of Literati in the Northern Song Dynasty(Ⅱ)

文章由三个层面探触永叔之琴。一、依其生平年代、仕宦历程,缕述他与琴有关的诗文作品,加以系年及说释;二、根据这些作品及相关记载探究他的抚琴经验及琴友交游;三、讨论他的琴学思想,并试图以北宋士风为背景,观察永叔身为琴家、交结琴友、参与琴事、发为琴论,如何将他身为知识分子的理念浸润渗透入琴中,而他的琴学议论及抚琴实践又如何反过来成为北宋士风昭昭可见的脚注和诠释。由永叔之琴到北宋士风的联结,是文章试图提出的主要论点之一。

Ouyang Xiu,also known as the‘Old Drunkard’was a political and literary leader in the Northern Song Dynasty.With artistic talents,he was a well-known calligrapher and played sevenstring zither qin very well.This article discusses the qin music of Ouyang Xiu from three aspects.First,it will chronologically list Ouyang’s works related to qin and provides further explanation.Second,through inductively analyzing the features of these works,it will discuss his experiences in the qin activities to examine his thinking of qin and its development.Third,this article,through a wider perspective,explores the origin of Ouyang’s thoughts about qin as well as the transformation of culture from Tang to Song dynasty,to investigate the role of Ouyang in the qin culture in the Northern Song dynasty.In addition,the article locates Ouyang’s qin culture in the historical context,through his discussions and musical practices,to reflect the collective ideology of intellectuals,that is,the ethos of literati in the Northern Song Dynasty.