東亞行紀“失實”問題初探

A Preliminary Approach to Travel Records around the East Asian and Questions about Theirs Inaccuracies

在東亞漢文化圈的歷史上,各國使者的往來頻繁,並且留下了大量的行紀文獻(俗稱"燕行録")。對這些文獻的研究,在本世紀以來的東亞地區形成了熱點。然而在重視文獻"可貴"的同時,人們對其特徵缺乏必要的把握,從而導致了一些謬誤的產生。本文着重從前後因襲、觀看態度以及"文戰"場合三方面入手,對其"失實"問題予以探討。强調只有充分掌握行紀文獻特徵,纔能使大量的行紀資料實現其應用的價值。

In term of its value as historical documents, "Travel Records around the East Asian"( the common name is " Yan Xing Lu" or"Yeon Heng Rok") are a huge and precious database for East Asian studies. From the beginning of the 21^(st) century, the editing and research of "Travel Records around the East Asian" more and more become a scholarly hotspot in East Asian community. Although scholars pay much attention to its important historical values, they seem to have not grasped the characteristics of such kind of records correctly,so are lack of vigilance on the "authenticity" of these data,which leads to some errors. This paper argues that the "inaccuracies"of "Travel Records around the East Asian" were caused by plagiarism of later envoys to former records, observer's attitude,and the context of " literary contest" between Korean envoys and Japanese literati.Contemporary scholars should be aware of the characteristics fully, so as to grasp the meanings of the data correctly.