《文选》成书时间考说——《文选》成书时间研究之二

On the Finish Time of the Selections Readings——Second Study on the Finish Time of the Selections

影响《文选》成书时间研究的因素有七:一是"所录皆前人作";二是《文选序》反映出萧统在《文选》完成后的心情轻松畅快;三是丁贵嫔之死与其后发生之"蜡鹅事件"对萧统产生巨大之负面影响;四是编《文选》的工作量至多为撰《文心雕龙》的一半;五是《文选》为正常完成之书,而非仓促所就;六是不存生者原则的确定在其编纂之初;七是陆倕去世于丁贵嫔之前,而其作品之入选则在编纂原则确定之后。其中,一、二、四、五等四项已不是问题。至于《文选》的编纂成书时间,其上限当为普通五年二月,下限则为普通七年十月。

7 elements affected the study of the finish time of the selections,namely：1.＂Works selected were written before＂;2.the Preface of the selections revealed the happiness of Xiao Tong;3.the great negative impacts on XiaoTong from the death of Ding Guipin and the later the Wax Goose Event;4.the amount of the efforts in editing the Selections was at most half of that of the Wenxin Diaolong（The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons）;5.the Selections were normally finished,not at halfcocked.6.the editing principle of unwritten of the alive was at the very beginning of the editing;7.Luchui died before Ding Guipin,yet his works were selected because it happened before the applying of the editing principle.Among those,NO.1,No.2,No.4 and No.5 are well accepted now.As to the finish time of the Selections,the upper time should be February of Putong 5th year,and its lower time would be October of Putong 7th year.