略論紀昀的《玉臺新詠》研究

Brief Discussion of Ji Yun’s Study of the New Songs from the Jade Terrace

Abstract

LANGUAGE NOTE | Document text in Chinese; abstract also in English.

紀昀對《玉臺新詠》用功甚勤，先後批、校數次，最终完成《玉臺新詠考異》，解決了《玉臺新詠》中許多至關重要的問題，具有極高的學術價值。同時紀昀以其學界領袖的身份，用力於集部，其校勘、考訂的方法，對乾嘉學風的形成是起到了示範作用的。但學術界對紀昀的這種研究却没有深入的認識，本文比較全面地清理了紀昀的幾次批校本，對《玉臺新詠考異》一書冠其父紀容舒名的原因作了分析，基本理清了紀昀《玉臺新詠》研究的過程。文章最後對《玉臺新詠考異》一書的主要成就作了充分的肯定。

After several rounds of arduous work on the commentary and collation of the New Songs from the Jade Terrace, Ji Yun (1724-1805) finalized his work entitled Critical Examination of the New Songs from the Jade Terrace. In this project he resolved some critical problems and thus accomplished great significance in the field. As a leader in academia, Ji set up a model for emulation of his devotion to the study of literary anthologies and his methodology in textual collation and examination, which gave direct rise to the formation of the scholarship of the Qianlong and Jiaqing reign-periods (1736-1820). However, Ji’s scholarship has yet to be seriously studied. The present essay examines the history of Ji’s study of the New Songs from the Jade Terrace in two respects. First, it systematically introduces all the commentated and collated editions produced by Ji. Second, it accounts for the reason Ji attributed his Critical Examination of the New Songs from the Jade Terrace to his father Ji Rongshu. The author of the present essay renders full credit for the achievements of Ji’s book.