明代唐宋派古文四大家「以古文為時文」說

＂The Use of the Classical Style in Examination Prose＂ as a Description of the Works of the Four Masters of the T'ang-Sung School of Classical Prose in the Ming

鄺健行(Kwong Kin Hung)

《中國文化研究所學報》 22卷 (1991/01) Pp. 219-232

https://doi.org/10.29708/JCS.CUHK.199101_22.0015

並列摘要

The Four Masters of the T'ang-Sung School of classical prose in the Ming were Wang Shen-chung, T'ang Shun-chih, Mao K'un and Kui Yu-kuang. At the same time, all four excelled in the shih-wen時文 (examination prose) or pa-ku-wen八股文(eight-legged essay) as well. These four writers used the classical style in the writing of examination prose. They employed the techniques of classical prose and infused their pa-ku-wen with the eloquence of classical prose. In general, writers in the T'ang-Sung School of classical prose did better in their examination prose than those in the Ch'in-Han School. The reasons are that the two camps 1) differ in the method by which they learned the classical prose style; 2) differ in the attitude they took towards prose work in the T'ang and Sung dynasties; 3) differ in their view on the relation between the tao道 and wen 文.