《資政大夫經筵講官刑部尚書王公神道碑銘》作者考

A Study on the Identity of the Author of ＂Wang Shizchen Shendaobei＂

李銳清(Li Rui-qing)

《中國文化研究所學報》 新1期 (1992/01) Pp. 261-267

https://doi.org/10.29708/JCS.CUHK.199201_(1).0017

並列摘要

The inscription on the tablet ＂Wang Shizhen shendaobei＂ contains the earliest attempt to review the poetic theory of Wang Shizhen. The tablet has long since disappeared, but the inscription has come down to us in two versions, collected separately in the works of Wang Shan and Yang Shengwu. Wang Shan was a close friend and colleague of Wang Shizhen while Yang Shengwu was a subordinate of Wang Shan. The two versions are similar in content. The most obvious difference between them concerns the identity of the person who went to the capital to look for a suitable writer for the inscription. In Wang Shan's version, the person in question was Wang Qisu and his brother (sons of Wang Shizhen) while in Yang Shengwu's version the person was Wang Shili, a cousin of Wang Shizhen. A letter from Wang Qisu and his brother to Huang Shulin revealed that the person in question was Wang Shili, a statement which is in agreement with Yang Shengwu's version. The two versions also differ in contents. It might be that since Yang Shengwu was a subordinate of Wang Shan, after Yang had written the inscription, Wang furnished it with additional remarks on the episodes of Wang Shizhen and revised the whole text, so that Wang Shan's version reads better than Yang Shengwu's original work.