唐代相痣书残卷P.3492v研究

A Study of P.3492v: A Fragment of Tang Dynasty's Divination Book for Moles

敦煌相痣书P.3492v残卷,记载了人体各部位黑痣及其所主命禄吉凶,是目前所见相痣类图书中内容最丰富、记载最详细的一部,客观地反映了唐代相痣术的发展及在民间流传的实际情况。本文结合传世文献的记载,并以其他卷号的敦煌写本相书为参照,从形式、内容等方面,对这件相书残卷进行了初步的探讨。

P.3492v was a piece of Dunhuang fragment of the divination book specially for telling the moles of human being's body which was dating from the Tang Dynasty. It recorded not only the placement of the moles around man's body but the designation of the moles and telling the fortune and fate at the same time as well. So far, it is a unique divination book for moles with the richist contents and in the most details to be found and it has objectively reflected the actual development of the divination for moles in the Tang Dynasty and the true situation of its population among the folks of the historic times. This article is gong to make a preliminary study on P.3492 fragment by its writing style and the contents. The study is also going to take much refrences to the Chinese classical documetation and other relative materials with the same subject of divination found among the Dunhuang Manuscripts to make the study to be complete and prefect.