牡丹与寒梅:以两种花卉阐释唐宋士人的差异

在中国古代,历来有花卉鸟兽抒情明志的传统。在特定历史时期中,某种自然物象同特定的情感和意义之间建立了相对稳固的关系,经过社会的认同,物象便转化为人的情感符号而失去了自身客观性质的特征而成为时代的一种标志。牡丹与寒梅就是唐宋两代士人给予充分观照的审美对象,前者艳绚丽、神采外放,代表了唐代建功立业、开张扬厉的时代精神;后者瞿瘦淡雅,外枯中膏,可与宋人淡泊收敛,质朴深微的心态相契合。唐人爱牡丹,宋人重寒梅,从两种花卉的分析中,可对唐宋的时代精神加以阐释。

Peong and Mei blossom:To Explain Spirit Difference of Tang and Song dynasty's Intellectual

In Chinese ancient times,it existed a king of tradition that described flowers and plants,birds and beasts to express one's emotion and ambition.In a special historical stage,a stable relation with particular emotion and significance,which could change into a sign of human beings' feelings,lossing their own objective features and become a symbol of period thought that Peong and Mei blosson are aesthetic objects.The former standed for spirit of the times that showed somebody's succeeds in one's enterprise or somebody is conductive to one's country for peony is splendid in its appearance.And the latter can compare with people's quality of Song,who was quiet and plain that can mix with their minds for its lean light elegant and interior essence.From analysing flowers and plants we can explain the spirit of times about Tang and Song dynasty.