论钩稽排比史料法的方法论意义——以徐松《唐两京城坊考》西京部分为中心

Methodological Significance of the Means of Comparing and Analyzing Historical Materials——A Discussion Based on the Investigation of the West Capital in An Investigation of the Two Capitals of the Tang Dynasty

钩稽排比史料是一种古老而传统的史学研究方法,也是史学研究中最基本最常用的方法之一。徐松《唐两京城坊考》西京部分除在《长安志》相关内容的基础上钩稽增补史料外,又对所有史料进行重新排比,使得《唐两京城坊考》成为研究隋唐长安、洛阳两城的集大成之作,并被今人视作研究隋唐史的第一手资料,其所取得的成就在很大程度上得益于钩稽排比史料法的成功运用,其在方法论上的意义并不亚于著作本身,应当给予足够的重视和充分的肯定。

Comparing and analyzing historical materials is an old but traditional means and also the most pri- mary and most common means of history study. In editing The Investigation of the Two Capitals of the Tang Dynas- ty, Xu Song screened and amended historical materials based on related contents of The Chronicles of Chang＇an. Moreover, he comparatively re-scrutinized all historical materials, making his book a great synthetic work of the kind for study of Chang＇ an and Luoyang in times of the Sui and the Dynasty and one of the primary sources for study of the history of the Sui and the Tang Dynasty. Xu＇ s accomplishments benefitted to a great extent from suc- cessful use of the means of comparing and analyzing historical materials, whose methodological significance doesn＇ t fall short of the work itself. This calls for enough attention and affirmation.