曾国藩与桐城派古文家梅曾亮之关系发微

On Details of the Relationship between Zeng Guofan and the Ancient Chinese Prose Expert of Tongcheng School Mei Zengliang

曾国藩与桐城派的关系是一桩学术公案。与梅曾亮的直接交往,事关曾国藩与桐城派传承流变等重要问题。学界对曾、梅关系的考订,或文献征览欠备,或文本研理未尽,始终未能窥其全貌。通过梳理曾国藩日常交游、书籍阅读等相关文献,可知曾国藩对梅曾亮及其古文的看法是动态变化的,咸丰二年之前是疏离又争胜,咸丰九年开始逐步褒扬。厘清曾、梅二人之关系,有助于加深对曾国藩性格志趣和古文观念的具体认识,也有助于了解道咸年间桐城派的真实境遇。

The relationship between Zeng Guofan and Tongcheng School was a complicated academic case.The direct contact with Mei Zengliang was related to the important problems about the development and changes of Zeng Guofan and Tongcheng School.Academic circles haven＇t read all the literature or finished the research,so they have never been able to obtain its truth on the relationship between Zeng Guofan and Mei Zengliang.By teasing out the related literature about Zeng Guofan＇s daily association and the books he read,we know that Zeng Guofan had dynamic views about Mei Zengliang and his ancient Chinese prose.He alienated and tried to win them at the second year of Emperor＇s Xianfeng＇s reign（AD 1852）,and then became gradually praised them at the ninth year of Xianfeng＇s reign（AD 1859）.Clearing up the relationship between the two of them can not only help to deepen our understanding about Zeng Guofan＇s personality,interests and concepts of ancient Chinese prose,but also help to understand the real circumstances of Tongcheng School during Daoguang＇s and Xianfeng＇s reigns.