在中国文学史上,唐代文学取得过辉煌的成就,唐诗可谓达到诗之顶峰。这几乎是古今学人的共识。但章太炎却并不认同这样的观点,他在很多文章与讲演中对唐代文学在总体上评价不高,甚至有卑视之倾向。且不论被他视为“始造意为巫蛊媟嬻之言”(1)的唐人小说,即使被他视作文学正宗的诗文方面,在他看来,唐代亦并无多少突出成就。虽然唐代诗人辈出,大家众多,诗 In the history of Chinese literature, the Tang Dynasty literature has made brilliant achievements, the Tang poetry can be described as the peak of poetry. This is almost the consensus of ancient and modern scholars. However, Zhang Taiyan did not agree with this view. In many articles and speeches, he generally underestimated the literature of the Tang Dynasty and even tended to be hesitant. Regardless of what he regards as the “novels of the world” (1), even though it is regarded as an authentic literary text by him, there is not much Tang seems to him Prominent achievement. Although many poets in the Tang Dynasty, many people, poetry