唐宋人物軼事的不同風貌

唐宋人物所處時代有異,軼事的記載中面貌有所不同。唐人承前代志怪餘風,又受傳奇體的影響,記載中多真真假假的情況,宋代作者則以親身見聞爲主,很少羼入道聽途説。唐人重國史,而國史又大量散入民間,一些作者納入己作,因此時有同一題材的類同文字出現,宋人受司馬光等修史觀的影響,舊史與小説並重,惟求其真。唐人承貴族執政之餘風,李德裕在功業文章上均有建樹,其人又爲牛李黨爭中的關鍵人物,相關軼事中時見彼此攻擊造謡污蔑的不實之詞。蘇軾爲文治格局中涌現的一位新型人物,瀟灑隨意,多方開拓,充分展示出宋代文士的風采。

The Differences between Features of Anecdotes of the Tang and Song Dynasties

The features of people recorded in anecdotes of the Tang Dynasty are different from those of the Song due to different time contexts.The Tang people inherited traditions of supernatural stories of former dynasty and were influenced by the style of Chuanqi,hence the accounts are the mixtures of truth and falsehood.Writers in the Song Dynasty mainly recorded what they had experienced and heard;they seldom mingled gossips in the records.People in the Tang Dynasty attached much importance to the official histor...