其他篇名 Alternative Title
Metaphysics and literary ingenuity : a philological study of kongdong wuwu in A New Account of Tales of the World
摘要 Abstract
《世説新語·排調》有一則記載王導與周顗的問答，周顗使用了“空洞無物”一語，今人受現代成語的影響，對此語原有的玄學意藴缺少感受和認識，僅簡單將其理解爲空無所有，這是不够準確的。空同或空洞的本意爲渾然一體、混沌未分，早期道家和宇宙論常用來形容大道的窈冥茫昧之狀，以及天地未分時混然一氣之狀，而到魏晋之時，空洞演變成爲一個頗具玄學色彩的詞彙。王弼注《老子》使用空洞一詞，一方面延續了該詞的混沌一氣的意思，一方面也賦予了它空虚無物的意思。“無物”和“容”也是來自老莊和玄學的思想。知道這些詞彙和概念的玄學背景以及魏晋的政治文化，結合周顗、王導等人的品性、行事以及其他故事就可以知道，周顗創造的“空洞無物”一語含有豐富的玄學意藴，正透露出他的玄學和才藻。
In the “Taunting and Teasing” chapter of A New Account of Tales of the World, there is a record about the conversation between Wang Dao 王導 and Zhou Yi 周顗, in which the latter uses the expression — kongdong wuwu 空洞 無物. With the influence of modern Chinese idioms, contemporary readers lack the perception and understanding of kongdong wuwu’s metaphysical connotation and simply interpret it as hollowness, which is inaccurate. Kongtong 空同 or kongdong 空洞 meant unity in the undivided state of primal chaos, as used in early Daoist cosmology to describe the dimness and obscurity of the great Dao and the original vapoury matter of chaos before the separation of heaven and earth. In the Wei and Jin dynasties, kongdong evolved to become a term with metaphysical connotations. Wang Bi 王弼 using kongdong in his annotation of Laozi extended the term’s meaning of the original vapoury matter of chaos on the one hand and attributed the meaning of hollowness to it on the other. The ideas of wuwu 無物 (thinglessness) and rong 容 (tolerance) came from Laozi, Zhuangzi, and metaphysics. By reading the metaphysical nuances of these terms and concepts with the political culture of the Wei and Jin dynasties and Wang Dao’s and Zhou Yi’s characters, behaviors, and anecdotes, this article reveals Zhou Yi’s neologism kongdong wuwu has rich metaphysical connotations and his literary ingenuity.
關鍵詞 Keywords
空洞無物, 空同, 玄學, 《世説新語》, 周顗, kongdong wuwu, kongtong, metaphysics, A New Account of Tales of the World, Zhou Yi
語言 Language
Chinese (Traditional)
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參考書目格式 Recommended Citation
羅寧 (2023)。玄學與才藻 : 《世説新語》“空洞無物”事義詳説。《嶺南學報》，復刊 第十九輯，頁97-124。檢自 https://commons.ln.edu.hk/ljcs_new/vol19/iss1/6