赋与传:从本原到书写

Prose Poetry (fu) and Biography:From the Original Function to the Composition

在中国古代文体史上,辞赋与传记有着一定的关联,从某种意义上看,赋体承载了部分传体的功能。而从赋体之本原到书写,这一现象又明显地表现于三方面:一是'赋'为'经'之'传',其'赋''传'互称、赋文引经、以经衡赋为其要点;二是赋体描写的历史化趋向,使其脱离由'史'传'赋'而表现出因'赋'明'史'的过程;三是汉人'赋'与'颂'的互称喻示了赋体的述德传统,这一内涵正与传记叙述人事之彰善瘅恶有着相同的历史功用。

Prose Poetry(fu)is related to biography in the evolvement of China's ancient genres.The prose poems share,to some extent,part of the biographical function.Three features are manifested from the original function to the composition.1.Prose poetry is the rewording of Confucian classics.Both the poetry and rewording explicate each other.The prose poetry quotes Confucian classics and makes it its focus to assess itself in light of the Confucian classics.2.The prose poetry features historical narrative,transforming from recording prose poems in history to illustrating history through prose poems.3.Prose poetry“fu”and the ode“song’??explain each other in Han Dynasty.This feature reveals the didactic tradition of the prose poetry,which is shared with biography in depicting moral edification against human evil in life stories.