八股文經世乎？—兼論劉熙載之經世觀

Saving the World with the Ba-Gu Writing (八股文) ? - On Liou Xi-zai's (劉熙載) View of Saving the World

甘秉慧(Bin-Huei Gan)

《國文學誌》 5期 (2001/12) Pp. 359-392

https://doi.org/10.6973/CJ.200112.0359

摘要

Since the Suei and the Tang Dynasties, attending the national examination Ke-ju (科舉) has been the quickest path for the Confucian scholars to demonstrate their study and eventually serve their country. The Ba-Gu Writing was the major form of this examination, lasting for over 500 hundred years. The Confucian scholars“saved the world”(經世) through taking this path; therefore, this paper studies the relevant oeuvres collected in the Ming and Qing Dynasties and the views on Ba-Gu writings proffered by the scholars of the time in order to understand what saving the world and Ba-Gu Ke-ju examination embedded both in its form and its content. From his General Commentary on the Classical Literature (經義概) of the famed Qing Dynasty scholar Liou Xi-zai and his biographical life, it's not difficult to find that he does have his own special observation. His is indeed an inspiring view on saving the world! Shang Yian-liou (商衍鎏) has this to say about the Ba-Gu Writing:“A thousand words cannot dig into its secret, and a thousand years cannot get to its source.”To this Ba-Gu writings that have influenced hundreds of thousands of people’s lives and had tremendous impact on the history and culture of the entire social life of a time, we should correctly gauge its value instead of just giving it up as trash.

關鍵字

八股文 ； 時文 ； 經世文 ； 經義 ； 劉熙載

並列摘要

Since the Suei and the Tang Dynasties, attending the national examination Ke-ju (科舉) has been the quickest path for the Confucian scholars to demonstrate their study and eventually serve their country. The Ba-Gu Writing was the major form of this examination, lasting for over 500 hundred years. The Confucian scholars“saved the world”(經世) through taking this path; therefore, this paper studies the relevant oeuvres collected in the Ming and Qing Dynasties and the views on Ba-Gu writings proffered by the scholars of the time in order to understand what saving the world and Ba-Gu Ke-ju examination embedded both in its form and its content. From his General Commentary on the Classical Literature (經義概) of the famed Qing Dynasty scholar Liou Xi-zai and his biographical life, it's not difficult to find that he does have his own special observation. His is indeed an inspiring view on saving the world! Shang Yian-liou (商衍鎏) has this to say about the Ba-Gu Writing:“A thousand words cannot dig into its secret, and a thousand years cannot get to its source.”To this Ba-Gu writings that have influenced hundreds of thousands of people’s lives and had tremendous impact on the history and culture of the entire social life of a time, we should correctly gauge its value instead of just giving it up as trash.

並列關鍵字

Ba-Gu Writing ； contemporary writing ； saving-the-world writing ； interpretations of classical literature ； Liou Xi-zai