浅谈柳学研究的禁区──《河间传》

He Jian Zhuan: A Forbidden Zone in the Study of Liu Zongyuan

《河间传》作为柳宗元的一篇奇文，历来被视为禁区。此文其实是对永 贞革新中的一个小人的描述，作者用曲笔暗示出此人即是“八司马之一的程异。

He Jian zhuan , one of Liu Zongyuans odd articles, is alway s treated as a forbidden zone in the study of Liu Zongyuan. In fact, it is a d escription of a villain in the renovation of Yongzhen, an emperor in the Tang Dy nasty. The writer uses a tactful word to implies that the character is nobody bu t Chenyi, one of the eight Ministers of Defence.