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无一字无来历

　　作品中凡是独创性的表达都能在前人作品中追溯到源头。创作上的继承或源流关系一般体现为作品中的用典和对前人词句、意象等的化用，但又不能片面追求援引前人的词句、意象，亦步亦趋，否则容易变成抄袭，落入复古主义的窠臼。

No Word Is Without a Source

　　All creative literary expressions draw on works of earlier writers. The relationship between inheritance and origin in works is generally reflected in the use of allusions and the adaptation of expressions, phrases and imagery from earlier works. However, one should not just quote expressions, phrases and imagery from these works, nor blindly copy them, so as not to fall into the trap of retrogression.

引例

　　然予观宋景文近体，无一字无来历，而对仗精确，非读万卷者不能，迥非南渡以后所及。（王士禛《香祖笔记》卷十）（然而我看宋祁的近体诗作，没有一个字没有出处，而且对仗精工，如果不是读过很多书是做不到的，远非南渡之后的文人所能企及。）

　　However, I can see that not a single word in Song Qi's modern-style poems is without an original source. His poems are so well-crafted and balanced in structure, which shows that he could not have written them if he had not read a lot of books, and his poems are far beyond the ability of the literati of the Song Dynasty after it moved south. (Wang Shizhen: Notes from the Orchid Studio)