《曹真碑》新考

New Textual Research on Cao Zhen Bei

曹真是曹魏名将,《曹真碑》历来为世所重。本文据故宫博物院藏《曹真碑》初拓本补正了故宫藏《曹真碑》实物的部分阙文;又据碑文否定了《三国志·魏书·曹真传》裴注中一条谓曹真本姓秦的注释;并从曹丕临终委托曹真辅政的史实入手深入分析了曹丕与曹真特殊的政治关系及其形成过程。

Cao Zhen was a famous general of the Cao-Wei Dynasty and so the stele Cao Zhen Bei has received much attention from historians throughout history. The earliest rubbing of Cao Zhen Bei, which is in the collection of the Palace Museum, augments text missing from the actual stele, also in the museum’s collection. These two pieces of evidence demonstrate that the Pei annotation of “Biography of Cao Zhen” in the Wei Shu section of Sanguo Zhi is incorrect when it states that Cao Zhen’s original surname was Qin. The two texts in the Palace Museum also clarify the formative process in the unique political relationship between Cao Pei and Cao Zhen, which reached the point where Cao Pei on his deathbed commissioned Cao Zhen to assist in government.