液体的月光——中国古典诗歌中月光表达之管见

Liquid Moonlight—Description of Moonlight in Chinese Classical Poetry

中国文学中液体月光意象的表达方式在盛唐以前已经出现,但其种类的增多和用词的丰富变化,却是出现在中晚唐,此后基本定型并被广泛接受,这与中国自古以来就有将月亮和水联系在一起的信仰有关。用来表达液体月光意象的文学词语从古到中晚唐主要有:流、盈、满、金波、月波、如水、溢、湿、似水、浸、洗、濯、漉漉等,与月亮意象密切联系的其他意象主要有蟾蜍即是虾蟆、露和明水等。

The image of liquid moonlight appeared in Chinese literature well before the height of Tang Dynasty, but such metaphorical image did not significantly increase in kind and variety until the mid and late Tang Dynasty; ever since then, it has been an established image in Chinese literature. This image rises from the association of the Moon and water by early Chinese. From the ancient time to the late Tang Dynasty, the diction of such description includes ‘flow’, ‘spill’, ‘full’, ‘golden wave’, ‘moonlight wave’, ‘water-like’, ‘wet’, ‘soak’, ‘wash’ , ‘shimmering water’, etc. Other images closely associated with the Moon are ‘toad’, ‘dew’ and ‘Moon fluid’.