潘岳、傅咸几乎生活于同一时代,并有同名赋作《萤火赋》,但二者的思想意旨和创作手法有明显不同,这与他们的人生经历与个性密切相关.潘岳的追名逐利被世人诟病,其作品中流露出对萤火虫无欲无求的向往和无性命之忧的歆羡;傅咸继承忠直家风,性格劲直忠果,通过书写萤火虫对自我进行勉励劝诫.在创作手法上,潘岳倾向于缘情和细致描绘,傅咸侧重于说理和质朴的语言.二者也有相似之处,即对萤火虫处晦能明、在阴益荣的贤哲品格的高度赞美.
Pan Yue and Fu Xian almost lived in the same era,and wrote the homonymous works of Yinghuo Fu(Firefly Fu),but their ideological content and literary thought are obviously different,and this difference is closely related to their life experience and personality.Pan Yue's pursuit of fame and fortune has been criticized by the world,but his works reveal the admiration for fire-flies without desire or fear of death.Fu Xian inherits the loyalty of his family and his brave and direct character,which is projected in his works.He encourages himself by writing fireflies.In terms of creative techniques,Pan Yue tends to express emotion and elab-orates description,while Fu Xian focuses on reasoning and simple language.They also have something in common,that is,they highly praise the virtuous character of fireflies who can be clear in the dark.