中国家谱“书法”初探

A Preliminary Research on the Writing Rules of Chinese Genealogy

中国私修家谱自宋代以来,经过长期的发展,形成了一套具有鲜明特点的"书法"。家谱的书法可分为狭义的和广义的。狭义的书法是指家谱表述内容的书写规则,广义的书法则同时包括对家谱内容记载范围的规定。本文首先讨论家谱书法的基本内涵及其特点,进而探讨形成这些书法特点的内在原因,指出家谱书法的形成与家谱的收族宗旨和纂修者自身的文化修养有直接的关系。文章最后从家谱书法的演变过程,论述了家谱书法的时代特征。

The nonofficial compilation of genealogy arose in the Song Dynasty and has developed a set of special writing rules, which can be divided into the narrow and the broad. The narrow writing rules concern the content of genealogy, while the broad includes the regulations on the scope of recording. This paper begins with the basis content and features of these rules, and continues with a discussion of their origins. It points out a direct relation among the rules, the aims of the genealogical compilation and the cultivation of the compliers. And the rules have their own marks of ages.