读帛书本《春秋事语》

Some Notes on the Silk Book Chunqiu Shiyu(Happenings of Spring and Autumn and Comments

一闵子辛即闵子骞的补证《春秋事语》共有十六章,其中有三章都有闵子辛的议论。张政烺先生以为:“闵子辛此人它书不见,疑即闵子骞。《说文》三篇上:‘辛,罪也,从干二,读若愆。’辛辛形近,愆骞音同。闵子骞名损,辛、愆和损义亦相应。”。张先生以为辛愆音同,而愆又同于骞,故见于《春秋事语》的闵子辛即闵子骞。这样的推断,极为合理。现在还可找出其他的旁证来证实其说。

The book consists of sixteen chapters,three of them devoted to comments made by 闵了辛,who was also called 闵子骞 somewhere,a person appearing under the name of 闵子衍in the inscriptions of carved stones of the Eastern Han dynasty and under the name of 闵子骞 in the inscriptions of the mural-painting Han dynasty tomb at Holinger,Inner Mongolia.Because of the Confucianist emphasis on Spring and Autumn,many Confucian students ofthe Warring States,of whom 闵子辛 was an outstanding one,dedicated themselves to thestudy of the book. From this book we learn that 闵子辛 was also specialized in Spring andAutumn. However,the hitherto records do not carry any reference to 闵子骞. Chunqiu Shiyu bears a great similarity to Zuozhuan in that both place their emphasison narration. What is narrated in this book belonged to the 'official history'of the time.However,each chapter is accompanied with a paragraph of comment by a contemporary orpersons narrated. The discovery of the book helps the understanding of the historiographyof the Warring States period.