文化视域中的中国文章史研究

中国文章是中国文化的主要载体,大概分为认知文、交往文、祝颂文和述怀文四类,分布于典册、子史、骈文、古文、制义、报章(至20世纪中叶)等六个时期,并以认知文使用频率最高。20世纪前半段中国文章成功实现了文言到白话的嬗变,而后半段多元化写作给人们带来新的思考。中国文章具有历史认知价值,一元化社会出现的“文以载道”思想含有特定历史的优劣品格,文章审美取向也有其独特的文化根源,它们都与传统美文的承载体和写作指导思想有密切的关联。

The Study of Chinese Writing History from the Perspective of Culture

The Chinese writings are the carrier of the Chinese culture, which can be classified into four categories: cognitive writings; communicative writings, complimentary writings and narrative writings. These writings can be found scattered in law books, history books, parallel writings, ancient Chinese writings and newspaper stories (up to middle 20th century). Cognitive wrings are the most frequent to be found. During the first half of the 20th century the Chinese writings succeeded in shifting from classical to colloquial while during the second half the variety of writings brought to people new perspectives. The Chinese writings have historical cognitive values. The thought of "writing being the carrier of moral values" that arose in the traditional society contains particular historical features, hence the writings with special aesthetic orientations coming from peculiar cultural sources. They are all closely related to the traditional types and writing guidelines.