“述礼乐,备王道”——论孔子对《诗》的经典地位的重新确立

关于孔子之于诗学的贡献,人们所论甚伙,似已难以置喙,然大多数评论都忽略了孔子言《诗》的背景,即西周礼崩乐坏,诗教式微的现状。孔子于此重新赋予《诗》以经典意义,并将其作为其学术承传的一个重要文本,这对后世的诗学发展产生了极大的影响。通过查考可见,孔子对《诗》的＂备王道＂、＂述礼乐＂的诗学定位,恰恰开孟子、荀子诗学阐释的王道派和政教派的分野之端,而汉代《诗》的经学化阐释,也多围绕这两点而开。

On Confucius Contribution to the Classic Status Re-Establishment of The Book of Poetry

People pay much attention to the Confucius′ contribution of poetics but less to the social development background of propriety disintegration and poetry status declination in Western Zhou dynasty.It is Confucius who made Poetry regain the classical significance of kingcraft and rites-music at that time.Confucian poetry ideas led to the differences of Mencius poetics and Xun Zi′s poetics and influenced the poetics interpretation of Confucianism in Han dynasty