陈澧与晚清广东骈文的兴起

Chen Li and the Rise of Guangdong Parallel Prose in the Late Qing Dynasty

陈澧继承阮元创立的书院教育传统,在学海堂和菊坡精舍用心培养经史与辞章之才。对于骈文,他不仅肯定骈文的华美价值和致用功能,赞扬经学与骈文兼善的文士,指出部分名家特征,倡导骈文创作以六朝为标的,讲究骈文的格调等;还爱好并创作,在序跋、书信、杂记、哀祭、赋颂及说经札记等文体上都有创获,善于议论和抒情,反映晚清汉宋兼采、骈散不分的融通思潮及内忧外患加深的现实。他与谭莹同处在广东骈文发展中的重要位置,共同推动了晚清广东骈文的兴起。而陈澧经学、辞章兼善,又费心指导学生创作骈文,培养了谭宗浚、陈伯陶、张其淦等名家,贡献尤大。这改变了清代骈文复兴但广东一直较为冷寂的局面,从而拓展了骈文空间,也丰富了清代地域文学的内涵。

Chen Li陈澧inherited the educational academy tradition founded by Ruan Yuan阮元and took it as his responsibility to cultivated talents in classics,history,and rhetoric at Xuehaitang学海堂and Jupo Jingshe菊坡精舍.He affirmed the magnificent value and critical function of parallel prose,praised scholars and literati who were both good at classical studies and parallel prose,clarified the characteristics of some previous and con‐temporary masters,advocated parallel prose writing being based on the works in the Six Dynasties,and paid spe‐cial attention to the style of parallel prose.What’s more,he showed a passion for parallel prose with his own works in various literary genres such as prefaces and postscripts,letters,miscellanies,elegies,odes,and notes on scriptures.He was good at writing argumentation and expressing emotions,embodying the academic and literary trends of integrating different styles in the late Qing Dynasty and expressing the concerns about the deepening of in‐ternal Han and Song accompanied by don’t distinguish parallel prose from prose in the late Qing Dynasty,and expressing the concerns about the deepening of internal and external conflicts.Chen Li and Tan Ying谭莹were both in an important position in the development of Guangdong parallel prose,which jointly promoting the rise of Guangdong parallel prose in the late Qing Dynasty.Chen Li,with his command of both classics and rhetorics,made especially significant contribution in guiding students to write parallel prose writing and cultivated famous parallel prose masters such as Tan Zongjun谭宗浚,Chen Botao陈伯陶,and Zhang Qigan张其淦,bringing changes to the environment that Guangdong was relatively indifferent to the Qing-dynasty revival of parallel prose,thus expanding the space of parallel prose and enriching the regional literature in the Qing Dynasty.