儒醫詩人：薛雪的生命圖景

Confucian Medicine Poet: The Life Picture of Xue Xue

集詩人、詩學理論、醫家等多重角色於一身的薛雪，不僅對清代的詩學理論作出重要貢獻，在醫學範疇中更與清代溫病學說的奠基人葉桂齊名。然儒、醫並稱的薛雪去世後，其孫薛壽魚在為祖父所撰寫的墓誌銘中，卻無一字及醫。薛壽魚重儒輕醫之舉，揭示出儘管醫與儒合流，作為評判醫家最重要標準的「儒醫」概念，在明清時期其象徵符號的意義仍遠過於實指某一社會群體。本文從詩家與醫者身分切入，藉由對各種瑣碎片段文獻史料之考掘，描繪詩人薛雪的生命圖景，探究他在重述與詮釋其師葉燮《原詩》詩學理論過程中的繼承與創新；並兼論醫者薛雪與葉桂之間有關儒醫與世醫的分歧和差異。

Xue Xue is a literati of Qing Dynasty with multiple characters, poet, poetry theorist and doctor. He made enormous contributions to the poet theory of Qing Dynasty, and his medical profession also enjoyed same popularity with Ye Gui, the founder of Science of Epidemic Febrile Disease. After Xue Xue passed away, nothing medical related content had been brought up in the epitaph written by his grandson, Xue Shouyu.Xue Shouyu emphasized on Confucianism over medicine, that revealed that despite the combination of medicine and Confucianism, the concept of “Confucian medicine” as the most important standard for judging doctors in the Ming and Qing Dynasties was still far more symbolic than a certain social community. This article starts from the identity of a poet and a doctor. Through the research of various trivial segment of literature and historical materials, it depicts the life picture of the poet Xue Xue, explores his inheritance and innovation in the process of retelling and interpretation of his teacher Ye Xie’s “Yuan Shi” poetic theory, and discusses the disagreements and differences related to Confucianism and medicine between both doctors, Xue Xue and Ye Gui.