中国社会有着悠久的排名学传统,从政治品阶至社交席次,无所不在。文学批评虽是一种较主观的行为,亦难摆脱序位排名之诉求。耳熟能详如《诗品》《诗人主客图》《江西诗社宗派图》《光宣诗坛点将录》等经典作品,构成了中国文学排名观念的一条历时演变脉络。在这条脉络中,明代王世贞的《五子篇》系列诗歌,远承《江西诗社宗派图》,近接“前七子”文人并称,在此古典文学排名理论的发展低谷中,发挥着承上启下的关键意义,并为后来者提供了一些新的文学批评元素和方法。 Chinese society has a long tradition of ranking theory, ranging from political classes to social networking. Although literary criticism is a more subjective behavior, it is difficult to get rid of the aspirations of rankings. Familiar with such classic works as “poetry”, “poet’s main guest map”, “Jiangxi Poetry Club sectarian figure”, “Guangxuan poetic world record” and other records, constitutes a diachronic evolution of Chinese literary ranking concept. In this context, the series of poems by Wu Shizhen and the “sect of Jiangxi Poetry School” by Wang Shizhen in the Ming Dynasty are closely linked with “the first seven sages of the Jiangxi Poetry Society.” According to the literary men, in the trough of the classical literature ranking theory, Inherit the key meaning of the context, and provide some new literary criticism elements and methods for the later ones.