论古代家传之演变

ON EVOLUTION OF FAMILY BIOGRAPHY IN ANCIENT CHINA

家传是古代重要的著述样式和文章体式。在唐代以前,家传主要是一种著述样式,记载某一家族的多个人物,属于史部书籍中杂传的一类;唐宋是家传的变化时期,开始向仅记一人的单传演变;宋代则进一步出现了以家传为名的文传;明清以后,家传成为集部文章之一体,是一种文传。而六朝那种记录某姓氏多个人物的家传样式则几乎消失。

Family biography was an important writing form and literary form in ancient time. Before the Tang Dynasty, family biography was mainly a writing form, recording many figures in a certain family and belonging to a miscellaneous biography of historical books. During the Tang Dynasty and the Song Dynasty changes took place in family biography, evolving single person biography. The literary biography in the name of family biography appeared in the Song Dynasty. After the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, family biography became a style of literary collection and was literary biography. The family biography recording many figures of a family name nearly disappeared in the Six Dynasties.