“无弦琴”的哲学解构

自沈约说陶渊明有"无弦琴",并时常"抚弄以寄其意"以来,不断被后人寻章摘句、过甚其词乃至玄化,同时也把它与陶渊明的人品和诗品结合得天衣无缝,于是都不自觉地否定了陶渊明的"性不解音"。其实唐宋文人的"玄解"无弦琴并不是要故作高深,而是借他人之酒杯浇自己之块垒,不料今人信以为真,以致以讹传讹。要还原无弦琴的本色,必须剥去玄学外衣,知人以论世,从其交游交友之道、任真自得之性、人生境界之别、世态人情等方面对"无弦琴"进行哲学解构,陶渊明真乃"性不解音"者,随之也就理解了他的"弄琴"只是率性而为,并无"寄意"。

Philosophical Interpretation of "Wu Xian Qin"

Since YUE Shen said that TAO Yuan-ming had a "Wu Xian Qin"(a music instrument without strings) and used to play it with his heart and soul,later generations often partly cite TAO's poem on a bombastic and even mysterious level.But they combined the poems and TAO's moral qualities too much that they denied TAO's opinion of which music can't be reflected with human nature.In fact the intention of intellectuals in Tang and Song dynasties about "Wu Xian Qin" in a quirky way was not to make profound but to expre...