玄言诗赋的先行者:陆机

著名文学家、东吴贵族子弟陆机出身于儒学世家,也懂得曹魏前期的时髦理论,而对正始时代以来中原地区新兴的玄学则不甚了解;等到他进入洛阳谋求政治出路以后,为了融入中原文化的主流,不得不努力进修新的学说,并很快达到了相当的理论水平。由于他缺乏高级清谈对象,又习惯于动笔,遂成为玄言赋、玄言诗的先行者。陆机一向急于进取,根本无从践行玄理,也是他转而在诗赋中大谈玄心的一个重要原因。

Lu Ji,a Pioneer of Metaphysical Fu and Poetry

Born in an aristocratic family of Confucian scholars in Southeast China,Lu Ji was familiar with Confucianism and fashionable theories of early Wei period,but knew very little about metaphysics which rose during the Zhengshi era(240-249) in Central Plains.It is after he went to Luoyang for a political career that he began to study the new doctrine,in order to integrate into the mainstream culture of Central Plains,and he soon reached a considerablely high level of understanding.As he had no one to discuss philosophical problems,and used to write,he eventually became a pioneer writer of metaphysical Fu and metaphysical poetry.Lu has been eager to climb up,and has no way to practice metaphysical doctrins in his daily life,so he could only discuss them extensively in his poetic works.