廬山記 4.2

4.2

廬山古今人留題多矣。清言麗句既落人口。山翁野老相傳不絕。雖深巖窮谷人跡罕至。人之相去復數百歲。因其詞想其風。有若履舄並遊。而几案親相與言焉。夫文章之可傳也。如此其可忽諸。故晉宋諸賢山中詩。往往有可見者。本朝張晦之羇遊廬山甚久。水石佳處詩多中的。自有廬山集。承平以來人尚風雅。朝廷之士登高臨遠。亦有風人騷客之興。凡所遺篇什皆一時間。人歲月旦近。不患無傳也。今錄唐已前人詩。著于篇相。貴耳而賤目以擅去取也。

Numerous are the inscriptions left at Mount Lu by men of ancient and modern times. Pure expressions and beautiful verses having already fallen onto the lips of people, mountain elders and rustic old men transmit them without end. Even in deep crags and remote ravines rarely reached by human traces, though people be separated from one another by several hundred years, yet through their words one may imagine their spirit, as if walking side by side in sandals, or sitting intimately together at table in conversation. That literary writings can be handed down thus—how could one neglect them? Therefore, among the poems composed in the mountains by the worthy of the Jin and Song dynasties, there are many still to be seen. In our current dynasty, Zhang Huizhi traveled as a wanderer at Mount Lu for a long time; at fine sites of water and rock, his poems frequently hit the mark, and he has his own *Lushan ji* (Lushan Collection). Ever since the reign of peace, men have esteemed refinement; when gentlemen of the court climb heights and look into the distance, they too possess the inspiration of poets and elegists. All their surviving pieces belong to a single contemporary period; because their time is close at hand, there is no worry that they will fail to be transmitted. Now I record the poems of men prior to the Tang, setting them forth in this chapter, [preferring not to] value the ear while despising the eye in exercising arbitrary selection.