《五经正义》与“尔雅学”研究

Research on Wujing Zhengyi and Erya Theory

《五经正义》是唐代初年孔颖达等人奉敕编撰的一部经学训诂著作,《尔雅》是汉代以前出现的一部以今语、通语解释古语、方言的辞书。孔颖达等人在疏通训解"五经"时,不仅广泛地征引了《尔雅》及其汉魏旧注,而且还论及《尔雅》学的诸多相关问题。本文对《五经正义》在征引《尔雅》及其旧注时的训释特点作了总结;对《五经正义》关于《尔雅》撰人、序篇、篇名含义及《尔雅》声训法的运用等方面的问题进行了较为深入的探讨;同时也对《五经正义》征引上的失误作了初步的探讨。

Wujing Zhengyi is a collection of Confucian Classic works compiled by Kong Yida in the early years of Tang. Erya, a dictionary, published before the Han Dynasty, that illustrates ancient vocabulary and expressions and dialect with the current ones. Kong Yingda and his colleagues has widely cited from Erya and its annotations in the Wei and Jin Dynasties when compiling Wujing Zhengyi, they also discussed issues in relation with the theory of Erya. This paper attempts to summarize the characteristics of the Wujing Zhengyi＇s citations from the Erya and its old annotations. A thorough investigation is made on the authors, the preface, the title meaning of Erya, and on the pronunciation training method mentioned in the book, and a preliminary discussion on the errors in the citations in the book of Wujing Zhengyi.