楚辞研究专题

QU Yuan＇s Given Name and Style： The Author of An Old Fisherman and Choosing the Dwelling Place, When and Where It Is Written

明代以来时有学者疑《卜居》《渔父》非屈原所作，以为篇首作“屈原既放”，不合古人自称不称字之习俗，其中叙事也有同当时历史不合之处。其实《史记》中“屈原者名平”，“名”乃“字”之误；屈原名原字平，南北朝以前人以至唐代一些人尚如此认识。此两篇也非顷襄王朝放于江南所作，而是怀王时被放汉北时所作。如此，则一些疑窦均可消除。至于有的学者以为此两篇中表现了道家思想，乃未能弄清文意所致，不可信。

Scholars since Ming Dynasty has questioned from time to time the view that QU Yuan is the author of An Old Fisherman and Choosing the Dwelling Place since the statement ＂QU Yuan is sent into exile＂ at the beginning of two poems is not in accordance with the habit that the ancient people did not refer to themselves by their style. Furthermore, the narration in two poems is also believed not in accordance with history. Actually, the ＂given name＂ should be ＂style＂ in the statement ＂QU Yuan＇s given name is Ping＂ in Records of the Historian. People before the Northern and Southern Dynasties through Tang Dynasty maintained the consensus that QU Yuan＇s given name is ＂Yuan＂ and his style is ＂Ping＂. Apart from this, the time he wrote these two poems was that when he was put into exile to the north of Hanjiang River by King Huai instead of that when he was put into exile to the south of Yangtze River by King Qingxiang. Those doubts can be cleared up by such an explanation. Besides, the argument that Daoist Thought is expressed in these two poems is not valid because of a misunderstanding of the poems.