沈德潜『古诗源』诗观探微

Abstract

The criterion of selecting poems to a poetry anthology is vary with each individual which reflected the poetic ideology of the selector. To know more about the poetry view of the poems selector, you should first know the motivation of bookmaking, and the background of his thought. In the recent years, Shen Deqian’s anthology was considered as working for a feudal govern by academia which gravely impede the poetry development. Some scholar think that the poets and poems evaluation standard of Origin of Ancient Poems was inspired by Chen Zuo Ming’s mining Shu Tang Poetry Election, thus they think that the poetry view of Shen Deqian is following Chen Zuo Ming’s, so as to make it not to be too rigid. Nevertheless, Origin of Ancient Poems indeed incorporates Shen Deqian’s insight of poetry selecting, and shows the historical origin and the value of poetry development. Literally, he practiced the view of tracing to the source and promoting gentle and honest manner in poetry. In this essay, I would firstly make a point by the motivations of making Origin of Ancient Poems is to trace to the source and to promote gentle and honest manner in poetry, and then reach the standard of poetry selection of Shen Deqian by understanding the foreword and evaluation in Origin of Ancient Poems: If one which can reach the standard might be elected, and if one which substandard Yazheng, is play-acting and lack of natural charm, or the contents cannot be read or the poem is fake then it would be less selective or even not be selected. From these motivations and standards of poetry election, I can conclude that there are 4 poetry view in Shen Deqian’s Origin of Ancient Poems; rebuilding the features of ancient poetry, promoting gentle and honest manner in poetry, tracing to the source and stressing on the meaning more than font. It is obvious that these poetry view does not follow from any classical poetry election, but it has its own poetic view and value.