『詩品』의 江淹 詩評에 대한 분석

Abstract

Zhong-rong(鍾嶸)'s 『Shi pin』(詩品) is to comment on Chinese ancient Five letter poem(a kind of poem that a phrase consists of five letters) firstly. Zhong-rong evaluated and classified a hundred and twenty three poets from Han-Wei(漢魏) to Zhai-Liang(齊梁) into top, middle, and bottom. Vertically Zhong-rong described the change of poetry development and each poet's relation, horizontally comparing each poet's artistic characteristic, discussing merits and demerits. Though people's aesthetic appreciations are various, Zhong-rong's comments often looks simple. This caused many controversies. Especially comments on Jiang-yan(江淹) were the most controversial among them. This thesis studied Zhong-rong's comments on Jiang-yan in 『Shi pin』 as following things. First, the variety of verse form and simulation, second, the outline of verse form and literary achievement, third, the causes of depletion of dexterity. First, it is said that Jiang-yan's imitative poetry was very different from most conventional ones since Si-jin(西晉) and had literary value and artistry. Second, it is said that as Jiang-yan's accomplishment is between Wang-wei(王微) and Xie-tiao(謝眺), arrangement order about these three people and word expressions is mainly researched. Third, Jiang-yan had no choice but to do so to survive in the difficult times but the contemporary political situation and literary trend also took charge of it. Especially his depletion of dexterity was because he might take the trace of many writers who had been killed before in case he made a conspicuous figure in the literary world of the age. In those days Jiang-yan heard disgraceful evaluation of depletion of dexterity but he could live comfortable life to the end because of it. Zhong-rong's comments which said that "Jiang-yan's dexterity was depleted " should be reconsidered as the modrn literary viewpoint which need not refrain from speaking, from doing, from writing.