杂说顾颉刚与《吴歌甲集》

Chitchat on Gu Jiegang and His Ballads of Wu Dialect(Volume I)

顾颉刚是中国最早收集和研究歌谣最有成就的人,《吴歌甲集》的出版是中国民间文学研究史上一件特大的大事,北京大学胡适、沈兼士、刘半农、钱玄同、俞平伯等五个著名教授为他写序,给予特别高的评价。顾颉刚对民间文艺学的民俗学的贡献和五四时期北大学者教授们坚持科学民主的学术风度让后人景仰。而当下在一些文化团体、学术部门泛滥成灾的封建帮派作风、宗派主义思想,以及打击压制理论创新的学术腐败行为,只能对学术研究造成不应有的损失。

Gu Jiegang is the first person who collected ballads and made the greatest achievement in the research of ballads. The publication of Ballads of Wu Dialect （Volume I） is a special grand case in the research history of Chinese folktale. The five famous professors of Peking University, i.e. Hu Shi, Shen Jianshi, Liu Bannong, Qian Xuantong, Yu Pingbai wrote prefaces for him with a spe- cially high comment. His contribution to folktale of the folk literature and his academic charm of sci- entific and democratic manners like the other professors and scholars of Peking University during the period of May Fourth Movement were highly admired by the successors. However, in recent time, some academic corruption actions carried out by the pervading feudal factions and sectarianism of some cultural societies and academic institutions seriously crack down and push down theoretical innova- tion, which Can only harm the development of the academic research.