刘向校书详析

An Analysis of Liu Xiang’s Book-Collation

西汉末年刘向校书,是一次长达二十多年的群体性的工作。从搜集到整理书籍,他们作了大量细致的校雠工作。后世乃至今日所见之古书,很多是当时整理的成果。他们整理时是有明确指导思想的,即当时“主流”思潮———儒家的思想。所以,这次大整理,既有保存之功,也有删改之嫌;既为后世研究传统文化保存了大量资料,也理所当然地引发出后世的一些辨伪、辨疑工作。

The collation of ancient books by Liu Xiang of the late Western Han Dynasty was a collective project that lasted for over 20 years. From collection to collation, they did a great deal of painstaking and careful job of proofreading and correcting. Many of the classical books people read since then have been the result of their efforts. The guideline, or the“instructive idea”,of their collation was the “main stream” of the thought of their time, i.e. Confucianism. While the large-scale collation contributed to the preservation of the Chinese classics, which was good for the traditional culture research afterwards, it was suspected of bowdlerizing and gave rise to some efforts of distinguishing the falsehoods and doubts from the true.