关于中世文学开端的一点想法

中国文学史有关上古、中世、近世的分期法 ,早先是通过明治时代日本的中介影响 ,借鉴了西方历史的划分标准。这套标准本身有其特定的构架及内涵 ,故在今天采用上述分期法时 ,仍应考虑到与它的对应性。从我国早期文学的表现形态来看 ,至秦汉 ,文学的发展受专制独裁政体及思想统制的压抑 ,丧失了先秦文学中曾出现的相对比较自由的精神与批判意识 ,质性上显示出较明显的异面 ,并对后世有着深远的影响。比照欧洲中世纪文学的情形 ,笔者赞同以秦汉作为中国中世文学的开端

Some Reflections on the Beginning of Middle Ages in Chinese Literature

The division of Chinese literature into ancient times, middle ages and then modern times is due to the intermediary influence of Meiji academia in Japan which adopted the criteria of division of Western history. This set of criteria had its specific framework and content, so when they are used today, their correspondence still has to be considered. As can be seen in the forms of expression in China's early literaturse up to the Qin and Han Dynasties, the development of literature was restrained by autocracy and restriction of thinking, thus losing the relatively free spirit and critical consciousness and gaining a comparatively obvious variant aspect in essence, which had a profound and lasting influence on the later times. Comparing it with the literatrue of the middle ages in Europe, this paper argues that Chinese literature of the middle ages started in the Qin and Han Dynasties.