溫庭筠“江淮受辱”本末考

An Investigation of the Whole Story of Wen Tingyun's Being Insulted In Yangzhou

本文由《玉泉子》、《北夢瑣言》所記溫庭筠"江淮受辱"事件入手,通過《上裴相公啓》與《百韻》等詩、文敍事線索的互證和文義的層層抉發,指出其事發生在甘露之變後不久的開成元年(836);溫素與宦官爲仇,因王涯之薦謀職揚子院,且以所得錢財買妓爲妻,遭到麇集在揚州的宦官勢力的毫不留情的人身攻擊和令溫生前身後揮之不去的誣蔑。本文力圖澄清有關誣詞,抉發兩《唐書·溫庭筠傳》有關文字的荒謬,重證溫的生年,肯定他對妓女的愛情。

Starting from the incident that Wen Tingyun was insulted in Yangzhou recorded by Yuquanzi( 《玉泉子》) and Beimeng Suoyan( 《北夢瑣言》),and by dint of 'mutual evidencing'between the narrative clues found in Wen's poems like 'Hundred Rhymes'and 'Epistle Presented to Prime Minister Pei ', and by excavating historical facts and meanings from them,this essay shows that the Jianghuai Incident happened in the first year of Kaicheng( 836),right after the Sweet Dew Incident( 甘露之變). Being always the enemy of the rampant eunuch power,Wen attempted to get the position of a subordinate clerk in the Monopoly Bureau of Iron and Salt,through the recommendation letter left over for him by the late Prime Minister Wang Ya and got some financial support thereupon. He then uses the amount of money to ransom a singer-prostitute from the brothel to be his wife. As a result,he suffered from harsh personal attack from the eunuchs assembled there, and caused importunate slanders upon himself both before and after his death. Making every endeavor to announce Wen's rehabilitation,this essay exposes the absurdity of Wen's biographies in the two Tang Histories( 《唐書》),reascertains Wen's birth year and positively reevaluate Wen's affection to his ransomed wife.