《诗经》是我国最早的一部民歌总集,作品多采自里巷歌谣,因为来自民间,其作者也就大多无可稽考。(徐文长曾慨叹早先有诗而无诗人,现在有诗人而无诗,甚有见地。)我读《诗经》时,每每感叹于这些先民们的即兴歌谣何以那样清澈纯净,那样质朴天然,一派天真烂漫,蓝天白云般的纤尘不染。进而想到这是一份被道德政治话语的历史迷尘掩埋得太久的美学遗产,当视作汉语文学审美精神的源头。 “The Book of Songs” is China’s earliest total folk song collection, works more from Lane songs, because from the civil, most of the authors will have no gibberish. (Xu Wenchang once lamented the fact that there was a poem earlier but no poet, and now there are poets and no poem.) When I read The Book of Songs, I often lamented why the impromptu ballads of these ancestors were so pure and natural, Innocent, blue sky and white clouds of dust stained. Then I think this is a historical legacy of moral and political discourse buried in the aesthetic heritage, as the source of the aesthetic spirit of Chinese literature.