唐五代碑刻所见“百牛”词义考

Research on“Bainiu”(百牛)in the Inscriptions of Tang and Five Dynasties

唐五代蜀地的碑刻中有“百牛”一词,清人叶昌炽等猜测是“当时方言”。从文献用例出发,结合语境,考察社会观念,证明碑文中的“百牛”应指癞疾,这一词义的产生,可能受到出自《论语》的典故“伯牛之疾”的影响。

Some inscriptions from the Shu region in Tang and Five Dynasties Period contain the word“Bainiu(百牛)”,which attracted the attention of epigraphists such as Ye Changchi.They proposed that“Bainiu”stemmed from a dialect.,This article proposes a new explanation of“Bainiu”that it refers to leprosy by investigating the language examples and social concept.The meaning of this word may be influenced by the allusion“Boniu's disease”from the Analects of Confucius.