《淮南子》未见于《史记》及作者问题

New discussion of the author and title of HuaiNanZi

《淮南子》是汉初新道家的代表作,撰成于汉文帝末期,刘安根据该书的主题思想题名为《鸿烈》,因武帝禁锢未能流传开来。刘向整理国家图书时,校定为《淮南》,东汉人题名《淮南子》、《刘安子》,唐宋之际又名《淮南鸿烈》。其作者,自东汉末年以来,普遍认为除淮南王刘安外,有道家的苏飞等八公及儒家的大、小山。相关文献证明,作者尚有兵家赵贤、朱骄如和九位精通《易》学的无名人士。

HuaiNanZi is the new Taoist＇s representative work of beginning of the Western Han Dynasty, write at the period of the Emperor Wu ruling time. At that time authors named it as HongLie according to its theme, when Liu Xiang edited it renamed as HuaiNan, in the Jin Dynasty it called HuaiNanZi or LiuAnZi, and in the time of the Tang Dynasty and the Song Dynasty it called HuaiNanHongLie. The authors of the book are considered generally as Liu An, Su Fei, and other two scholars as Da Shan and Xiao Shan since the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. According to related literatures, its authors should still include Zhao Xian and Zhu Jiaoru and other nine nameless scholars whom well know the Yi.