宋玉的《九辩》开创了中国文学悲秋的主题,其影响源远流长。通读柳永的《乐章集》,不难发现集中频频以宋玉自况。在其创作中不只直接引用或间接化用宋玉作品的句子,同时也在创作中屡屡涉及宋玉的轶事,其羁旅行役词尤其继承了宋玉悲秋的主题。柳永的文学创作主要从创作精神、思想内涵和艺术手法等几方面,提现出对宋玉《九辩》的借鉴和继承。
It has long been known that Song Yu's Jiu Bian started the theme of feeling sad with the coming of autumn in Chinese litera- ture with a prevasive influence. In Liu Yong's Yue Zhang Ji, it is quite often to see that he views himself as Song Yu. In his writings, he does not only quote directly or indirectly the sentences by Song Yu, but also repeatedly refers to Song Yu's anecdotes. His lyrics about travelling and laboring especially inherit Song Yu's theme. Liu yong's literary works imitate and inherit Song Yu's Jiu Bian mainly in the following aspects such as the creative spirit, the ideological connotation and the artistic technique and so on.