汉代初、中叶的四言诗,向来很少为人所注意,刘勰在《文心雕龙·明诗》中提了一句:“汉初四言,韦孟首唱,匡谏之义,继轨周人。”东汉曹操有《短歌行》等优秀的四言诗,那么在此之前,还有值得注意的四言作品吗?有,这就是西汉昭、宣、元、成时代(前86—前7年)梁国人焦延寿的《易林》,即隋、唐以后书目所标的《焦氏易林》(本文沿用此名)。焦延寿是当时著名的《易》学家,《易》学大师京房的老师,善于占卜预 In the early Han Dynasty and in the middle of the four-character poem, it was seldom noticed by people. Liu Xie wrote a sentence in “Wen Xin Diao Long Ming Poetry”: “Four words in early Han Dynasty, Wei Meng first song, There are other four-character works of note worthy of attention before this: Yes, this is the Western Han Dynasty, declared, Yuan, into the era (before 86- 7 years ago) Liang Yokun people Jiao Yanshou ”Yi Lin“, that is, after the Sui and Tang dynasties title ”Jiao Lin Yi Lin“ (this article follows the name). Jiao Yanshou was a famous ”Yi“ scholar at that time, master of ”easy" learning Beijing room teacher, good at divination