论欧阳修与曾巩的结交及其文学史意义-兼及欧曾文道观之异同

Abstract

There is no detailed research on the time when Ouyang Xiu and Zeng Gong met. Zeng Gong called Ouyang Xiu the "bachelor deacon" in The first book for Ouyang Maester, which caused difficulty for people to infer the letter’s writing time. In the first year of Qingli (1041), Ouyang Xiu was appointed as the general manager of the school and managed the secret Cabinet of the Third Museum. According to the old rules of the Tang System, he was able to be called a bachelor with such position. Therefore, the meeting time of Ouyang Xiu and Zeng Gongnshould be the first year of Qingli (1041) in December, when Zeng Gong started to prepare for the ritual department test at that time. Zeng hoped to reform the style of writing and revive the ideal of Confucianism and Taoism, which corresponded with Ouyang Xiu's idea of promoting the ancient prose movement, thus Zeng attracted Ouyang Xiu's attention and appreciation. They all respected the ancient scriptures and advocated the doctrine to be enlightened, but they also had great differences on it. Ouyang Xiu advocated the parallelism of the doctrine and tried to balance the relationship between the doctrine and the doctrine while Zeng Gong emphasized that Confucianism and Taoism were the origin and the foundation of literature, and did not pay much attention to language. Under the citation of Ouyang Xiu, Zeng Gong became a representative of the poetry and prose innovation movement in the middle period of the Northern Song Dynasty. Also, Zeng gong's personality orientation of Ouyang Xiu's "animal morality and ability article" actually contains the theoretical motif of "Dao Sheng Wen Zhi" in the poetry and prose innovation movement of the Northern Song Dynasty. Together, they established the ancient literary system after the Northern Song Dynasty and were collectively called "Ou Zeng" by later generations.