试论屈原《九歌》为“祭事歌”

历代楚辞学家以屈原《九歌》为“祭祀歌”,然考屈原的身份、《九歌》的词采、祭祀的礼仪,与此说多有不符。《九歌》当为“祭事歌”,即为一场祭祀之后的记叙与抒情,而非“祭祀歌”。结合史料考察这场祭祀的时间、原由、主祭者等因素,可更加有力地证明屈原《九歌》为“祭事歌”。

TRYING TO PROVE QU YUAN''''S JIUGE IS THE SONG FOR RECORDING SOMETHING ABOUT SACRIFICE

Through successive dynasties, many "the Songs of the South" scholars thought that Qu Yuan's Jiuge was the song for offering sacrifice to gods, but when we investigated Qu Yuan's identity,Jiuge's literary grace and the acrificial ceremony, we can't find anything to prove Jiuge is the song for sacrifice. On the contrary, if we combined the historical data and investigated this sacrifice's time,reason and the person who officiate at this sacrificial rite, we could draw a conclusion effectively that Qu Yuan's Jiuge is the song for recording something about sacrifice. In other words, it is narrates and lyrical for one sacrifice.