《三十六计》成书时代考析

Textual Research of the Completion Era of Thirty-Six Stratagems

本文根据语言具有时代性这一特点,对《三十六计》一书所有计名与"按语"所言及的案例大致出现时代,逐一进行梳理、考证和分析,发现它们大多出现在南北朝以后;其中计名不仅多为民间俗语,而且大多见于元明清时期的通俗文学作品中。由此认为,该书极有可能作成于清代,甚至有可能作成于清末,而绝不可能出现在唐宋以前的任何一个时代。

According to the feature that language has its special characteristics of the time, this article makes arrangement, textual research and analysis of the rough emergence era of the stratagem names, notes and cases in Thirty-Six Stratagems, which finds out that most of them came into being after the Southern and Northern dynasties. Most of the stratagem names are folk colloquialisms, which can be seen in the folk literature works during the Ming and Qing dynasties. According to thia, it can be concluded that this book was completed during the Qing dynasty and even at the end of the Qing dynasty. It is impossible for this book to emerge in any dynasty before the Tang and Song dynasties.