王韬始读《浮生六记》的时间和版本

Time and Version of Wang Tao's First Reading Six Chapters of Floating Life

笔者以《弢园文录外编》中王韬为杨引传写的《浮生六记跋》为依据,考订出王韬少时所读过的《浮生六记》和杨引传在冷滩上所得到的《浮生六记》不是一个本子。王韬读过的本子有阳湖管氏所题《浮生六记》六绝句,可能是沈三白的稿本。该本曾藏于苏州甫里曹氏畏人小筑,即王韬的戚串和学友曹醴卿家。

Based on Postscript to Six Chapters of a Floating Life written by Wang Tao in Anthology of Taoyuan for Yang Yinchuan,the author examined that the Six Chapters of a Floating Life that Wang Tao read in his youth was not the same manuscript with that one got by Yang Yinchuan in Lengtan.The manuscript Wang Tao ever read includes the six quatrains inscribed by Guan in Yanghu,and it may be Shen Sanbai's manuscript.This manuscript was once collected in Cao's Little Retreaingt House in Suzhou,the home of Wang Tao's relative and alumni Cao Liqing.