《尚书》中的五篇大禹命辞

The Five Injunctive Essays Promulgated to Great Yu in Shangshu

《尚书》中记载大禹受命五次,作者都是帝舜。四次保存了完整的命辞,一次保存了部分残文,分别保存在《舜典》《禹贡》和《大禹谟》中,反映了上古封官、封建诸侯、传位、征伐等命体公文的不同类型、结构、内容等方面的状况,是研究早期命体文的重要文献,具有非常重要的文体学意义。

According to the records kept in Shangshu, Great Yu received five orders and appointments promulgated by Emperor Shun. Among the five injunctive essays, four of them are well reserved and the other one is partially retained. All the essays are preserved in Shundian, Yugong and Da Yu Mo, showing the different styles, structures and contents of injunctive essays about offering official posts, granting marquis, demising thrones and going on punitive expedition, etc. in ancient times, which serve as important references in the research of early injunctive essays and have significant stylistic value.