僧与诗,结缘于魏晋,繁盛于唐宋。元代以后佛教与诗歌的双重式微,使得人们误以为诗僧数量亦趋寥寥,清末陈田辑《明诗纪事》而未刊僧诗更加剧了人们对这一问题的错误认识。实际情况是,明代从事诗歌创作的僧人远较前代为多,《全唐诗》收唐代诗僧109人,《宋诗纪事》收宋代诗僧240人,而《明诗综》则收明代诗僧310人,由此可见一斑。笔者通过翻检《千顷堂书目》~①(下称《千顷堂》)、《明史·艺文志》~② Monk and poem, tied to Wei and Jin, flourished in the Tang and Song dynasties. After the Yuan Dynasty, the dual neglect of Buddhism and poetry made people mistakenly think that the number of poems monks also tended to be negligible. In the late Qing Dynasty, Chen Tian edited The Poems of Ming Poetry without the publication of monk poems exacerbated the misunderstanding of this issue. The fact is that more monks were engaged in poetry writing in the Ming Dynasty than in the previous generation. Among them, there were 109 monks from the Tang Dynasty who received poems in the whole Tang Dynasty, and 240 monks from Song Dynasty who received Song Poetry Chronicle. It is evident from this. The author through the seizure of “Qianshitang bibliography” ~ ① (hereinafter referred to as “Qianshitang”), “Ming Shi Yi Wen Zhi” ~ ②