论两宋涉金著述的价值与局限

On the Values and Limitations of the Song Writings on the Jin Dynasty

两宋人的涉金著述十分丰富,涉及政治、军事、经济、文化等方方面面。这批文献可据作者的身份分为两宋使者著述,归正人著述和南宋士人反映宋金关系中人物、事件与制度的著述三类,其思想内容和历史意义主要体现在视角别样的金朝社会和情感沉重的历史纠结两个方面。它们从不同侧面揭示了女真统治下的金国社会生活及南北分裂所造成的种种悲剧,在金代艺文大量遗佚的情况下,因其贴近北方现实而具有不替代的文献价值。

The rich writings about the Jin Dynasty by the Northern and Southern Song people covered politics,military affairs,economics,culture and so on.They could be divided into three types: those by the Song diplomats,those by defectors from the Jin Dynasty and those by the Southern Song literati on the Jin and Song relationship,including the people,events and systems.Their ideology and historical value were reflected in two aspects:the Jin society approached from a different angle and the heavy historical entanglements loaded with emotions.These writings revealed the Jin social life under the Jurchen rule and the tragedies caused by the separation between the north and the south.As the Jin writings were mostly lost,they were irreplaceable as literature because of their true description of the then northern life.