施耐庵为“元朝辛未科进士”辨——兼与欧阳健先生商榷

A Fallacy that Shi Nai'an Was a Jinshi in the Year of Xinwei in the Yuan Dynasty—— A Different Idea from Mr.Ouyang Jian

施耐庵为"元朝辛未科进士"的说法,因元朝至顺辛未年(1331)没有开科的记录,加上官方史料与地方史料中从未有进士施耐庵的记载,所以是不能成立的。刘冬先生认为"辛未科进士"之说出自施氏后人误记,或是因为"元代的科举制度及其执行,十分混乱"所致。这种说法也是不能成立的。陈建华先生认为施耐庵实为"乡贡进士",这种说法亦是想当然之论。欧阳健先生则认为施耐庵本为至顺四年(1333)进士,出现"辛未进士"之说,是由燕铁木儿操纵下的科场舞弊案的恶劣影响所致。这种说法似禁不起推敲。

The assertion that Shi Nai＇an became a Jinshi in the year of Xinwei in the Yuan dynasty is arbitrary because there was no historical record of the feudal examination in the year of Xinwei （1331） during the reign of Zhishun in the Yuan dynasty and no official or local record shows that Shi Nai＇an was a Jinshi. Mr. Liu Dong believes that the assertion is originated from the descendents of Shi Nai＇an, who mistakenly recorded that ＂Shi Nai＇ an became a Jinshi in the year of Xinwei in the Yuan dynasty＂, or from the fact that the imperial examination system and its implementation in the Yuan dynasty was not in good order. This view can＇t be accepted, either. Mr. Ouyang Jian maintains that Shi Nai＇an became a Jinshi in the fourth year of the reign of Zhishun （1333） in the Yuan dynasty and that the assertion that Shi Nai＇an became a Jinshi in the year of Xinwei in the Yuan dynasty was the result of examination Fraudulence controlled by E1-Temur. This conclusion is also groundless.