《邶风·燕燕》“错简说”考辨

Verifying and Disputing of the Misplaced Bamboo Slips Opinion about "bei feng yan yan" in China′s Shijing

在古籍研究中,对是否存在错简问题一定要慎之又慎,不仅因其对正确解读文本关系重大,且求证极难。《燕燕》的前三章并不能独立成诗,它与末章是一脉贯通、前呼后应、不容分割的艺术生命体,合则神完意足,离则彼此俱残。根本不存在"误合"、"错简"的问题。

In the course of writing up the ancient books, we must be more and more careful with the case of ＂misplaced bamboo slips＂. For it is of vital importance for correctly understanding the text. And we seek evidence or verification extremely hard. The first three chapters of Swallows can＇t make a poem separately. The end chapter comes down in one continuous line with the first three ones. When they are combined with each other, the thought of this poem is complete and enough. There is not the issue of the ＂wrong combination＂ and ＂misplaced bamboo slips＂ at all.