黄山名称考辨

A Critical Study on the Name of Huangshan Mount

黄山是徽州文化构成的自然风光和人文景观结合的板块,在新兴显学——徽学研究中的地位非常重要。而关于黄山名称的由来,历来沿用“黄帝炼丹”说。本文从许承尧设疑发端,例举《旧唐书》、唐诗和道家学说,质疑传统说法,提出黄山名称是源于《易·坤卦》:“天玄而地黄。”

As a natural scenery plate, Huangshan Mount is one part of Huizhou culture, and it occupies an very important place in Huizhou Study, which is considered as a rising and famous theory. But, what is the origin of the name as Huangshan Mount? The theory of Huang Di making pills of immortality continues all through the ages. Xu Chengyao, a scholar of Qing Dynasty, once queried that theory. Taking his query as a starting point in consideration, this essay cites instances such as The History of the Former Tang Dynasty, poems of Tang Dynasty, the theory of Taoist School and so on, and raises a query about traditional explanation, then puts forward that the name of Huangshan Mount is from THE HEAVEN IS DARK AND THE EARTH IS YELLOW, which appears in The Earth Trigram of The Book of Changes.