《孝经》成书时代新辨

A New Textual Research on the Composed Time of Xiaojing

关于《孝经》的成书时代问题,主要有先秦成书说和汉儒伪撰说两种看法,其中"汉儒伪撰说"并不可信。《魏文侯孝经传》应视作魏文侯《孝经》之传,与前人所理解的魏文侯《孝经传》有所不同,《吕氏春秋》所引"《孝经》曰"并非注文误入原文。以《魏文侯孝经传》及《吕氏春秋》为突破点,《孝经》的成书上限当为魏文侯之时,下限当为《吕氏春秋》成书之时。

Views are divided on when Xiaojing was composed： some think that Xiaojing was written in the pre- Qin dynasty but others deem that it was forged by the Confucian scholars in the Han dynasty. However,the saying of＂the Han Confucian scholars forging Xiaojing＂is incorrect. Weiwenhouxiaojingzhuan should be interpreted as the commentary on Weiwenhou＇s Xiaojing,different from the common view of the commentary on Xiaojing by Weiwenhou and the words＂Xiaojing says＂quoted in Lüshichunqiu are not the annotations of the original text. Using Weiwenhouxiaojingzhuan and Lüshichunqiu as links,Xiaojingshould be composed between the time of Weiwenhou and the composed time of Lüshichunqiu.