《文心雕龙》的光明美学--以“炜晔”为例看刘勰的美学思想

The Light Aesthetic of The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons--Discussion based on Liu Xie’s Aesthetic Mind by taking“Weiye”as an Example

刘勰在《文心雕龙·论说》篇对陆机的“说炜晔而谲诳”提出异议。二者之间的分歧不仅在于对“说”文体的功用理解不同,更在于对形容词“炜晔”的使用标准不同。统观全书涉及“炜晔”词汇的篇目可以发现,《文心雕龙》不止一次用到“炜晔”“炜烨”等形容词进行观念表述。受时代、佛教两个维度影响,刘勰对形容光明的词汇倾注了积极的感情色彩。故而在创作时,刘勰潜在地限定这类词的使用范围,提高其使用标准。因此,以“炜晔”为例进行梳理、探讨,有助于领悟刘勰的光明美学思想,进一步认识《文心雕龙》所呈现出的“生命美”和“视觉美”审美倾向。

Liu Xie raised doubts on Lu Ji’s comment“Shuo is a literary form full of gorgeous words and false style”in the Essay of Wen Xin Diao Long.The reason lies in their different standards of using the adjective“Weiye”in addition to their differences on the function of the style of“Shuo”.View the Wen Xin Diao Long full text,Liu Xie uses more than once adjectives“Wei Ye”that describes light and maks his points.It can be seen from the use of these words that,compared with Lu Ji,Liu Xie was more deeply influenced by The Times and Buddhism,and put positive emotional colors on these words,thus potentially limiting the standards for the use of these adjectives in his creation.The differences reflect Liu Xie’s unique thoughts of light aesthetics.That is the reason why the whole book of Wen Xin Diao Long shows a unique aesthetic tendency of“beauty of life”and“beauty of vision”.After that,a large number of metaphor of light began to appear in the history of ancient literary criticism.