赵鼎臣生卒年考辨

The Textual Research on the Time of Birth and Death of Zhao Dingchen

赵鼎臣是北宋后期的一位文学家,所著《竹隐畸士集》有20卷传世,其当世即有文名,而后却寥落无闻。《四库全书总目·<竹隐畸士集>提要》对赵鼎臣评价颇高,然而对其生卒年付之阙如,后人对此亦众说纷纭,莫衷一是。赵鼎臣的生卒年史籍无载,今从诸家典籍中钩沉索隐,对其予以考辨,初步得出结论:赵鼎臣的生年为熙宁三年(1070),卒年在宣和五年(1123)至宣和七年(1125)间。

Zhao Dingchen was a litterateur in later period of Northern Song Dynasty,he had collected works ZHUYINJISHIJI（twenty volumes）,which circulated to the present.He was famous then and there,however,he was unknown to public afterward.SIKUQUANSHUZONGMU ZHUYINJISHIJITIYAO had appraised highly Zhao Dingchen＇s achievements of poems and songs and literary works,but not mentioned the time of his birth and death.Until now,there is nobody to consider such a problem.This article fully utilizes the first-hand information about Zhao Dingchen＇s poems and songs and literary works for the overall probe of all his life,and tries to correct the mistakes in the past.