北宋庆历士人对人生如何不朽、文学如何不朽等问题进行了深入的思考。在他们看来,人的生死就像花草树木一样最终都将化为泥土和灰烬,只有通过立德、立功、立言才能实现人生的不朽。庆历士人充分肯定文学创作在人生不朽中的重要地位,认为文学不朽的根本在于道义,同时还须具备一定的辞采和独创性。这样的文学不朽观不仅奠定北宋古文复兴的基础,而且对当下的文学创作具有重要的借鉴意义。 Northern Song Qing calendar people on how immortal life, immortality and other issues of literature conducted in-depth thinking. In their view, people’s life and death will eventually turn into dirt and ashes as flowers and trees. Only through rituals, merits and deeds can people realize their immortality. Qing calendar scholars fully affirmed the important role of literary creation in the immortality of life, that the immortality of literature is fundamental to morality, but also must have a certain rhetoric and originality. This notion of immortality of literature not only laid the foundation for the revival of classical prose in the Northern Song Dynasty, but also had an important reference for the contemporary literary creation.