清初歙县槐塘程氏的文化建构

Compiling Lineage Genealogy and Salt Gazetteer: The Cultural Invention of the Huaitang Chengs in Early Qing

本文对比 1 694年刊行的《两淮盐法志》和 1 673年刊行的《槐塘程氏显承堂重续宗谱》,展示徽州府歙县槐塘程氏宗族内部的江村派和岑山渡派在明末清初业盐致富 ,编写宗谱 ,其后江村派衰败而岑山渡一枝独秀并进而把持两淮盐法志的编撰的过程。宗谱是徽州商人内部组织机制之所本 ;盐法志是徽州商人向外争取文化认受性之所本。因此宗谱与盐法志成为明清徽州商人文化建构的必争之地。

This paper provides a solid case study of Huizhou merchants' success in salt trade and endeavours to strengthen their cultural legitimacy in late Ming and early Qing. By comparing the 1673 Huaitang Cheng lineage genealogy and the 1694 Lianghuai salt gazetteer, it demonstrates how the Cheng lineage in the county of Huizhou rose through success in Lianghuai salt trade and in turn dominated the compilation of the genealogy and the gazetteer. Since the genealogy provided the vital mechanism of internal organization (i.e., lineage) for Huizhou merchants, and the gazetteer consolidated Huizhou merchants' cultural legitimacy, it is only natural they became Huizhou merchants' 'contested terrains' as far as their cultural strategy was concerned.