文学视域下北魏《中岳嵩高灵庙碑》考索

Literary Exploration of Zhongyue Songgaoling Temple Inscription

《中岳嵩高灵庙碑》是北魏政权在平城定都时期的作品。从文学视域切入对碑文进行考索,可以发现书法学和历史学之外的新价值:碑文沿袭传统汉民族体例,先序后铭,序为主体;铭画龙点睛,概括全文。序文谋篇布局环环相扣、修辞手法运用纯熟;铭文采用四言句式,且和韵程度颇高。这些特点使碑文呈现出典重蕴藉又颇具文采的风格特色,说明北魏平城时期碑文写作水平已经达到了一定的高度。也从一个侧面反映了北魏平城时期文学对汉文化具有较为强烈的认同感和趋同性,接受程度也较为深入。而北魏平城时期的汉化程度和民族融合程度也由此可见一斑。

Zhongyue Songgaoling Temple Inscription dates from the period when the Northern Wei regime established its capital at Pingcheng.This paper attempts to discover new values beyond both calligraphy and history studies through its innovative literary exploration.It figures out that the entire inscription follows the traditional Chinese Han style-the preface part is the main body and it is followed by the inscription part;meanwhile,the inscription part is deployed as the finishing touching,summarizing the whole passage.The preface part is highly coherent and replete with various rhetorical devices;and the inscription part follows the quatrain form with a high degree of rhyme.These features give the whole inscription an elegant and literary style with its rich allusions,indicating that the standard of inscription writing had reached a quite high level in the Northern Wei period.The inscription also reflects a strong sense of identification with and convergence towards Chinese Han culture,suggesting a deep degree of acceptance of the mainstream Han culture in the literature of the Northern Wei Pingcheng period.It is also evident to see that the rather high degree of Sinicization and ethnic integration in the Northern Wei period.