王闿运《尔雅集解》探析

A Study of Wang Kaiyun's Erya Jijie

王闿运《尔雅集解》为重要的雅学典籍,采录汉至清代相关注释,要言不烦,并多己见,可与邵晋涵《尔雅正义》、郝懿行《尔雅义疏》相参照。《尔雅集解》之体例为:卷首撰写引言,说明各篇要旨;正文下标示异文;立论之前,罗列旧注。其注解方法主要有四:追寻字义、分析词义、校勘异文、辨析假借。其显著优点有二:厘清异文,校订典籍;见识卓著,善用文献。然因王氏未见新出之甲金文献,训释字词,难免有所偏误。

Erya Jijie by WANG Kaiyun is one of the most important works in the studies of Erya.Erya Jijie captures the related commentaries from Han Dynasty to Qing Dynasty,with succinct and precise explanations,and incorporating sufficient personal insights.Erya Jijie is highly comparable with Shao Jinhan’s Erya Zhengyi and Hao Yixing’s Erya Yishu.The pattern of Erya Jijie is as follows：1.composing the introduction before the main content of each chapter;2.stating the variants of the words in Eryabefore the commentaries;3.listing the commentaries of the former scholars before the discussion.There are four ways of annotation in Erya Jijie：1.identifying the original meanings of the words in Erya;2.analyzing the true meanings of the phases in Erya;3.collating the content of Eryaamong the variant versions;4.recognizing and analyzing the loan words.There are two outstanding contributions of Erya Jijie：1.clarifying the variants of Eryaand applying the finding into the collation of other Chinese Classics;2.annotating the Eryaby using the content of other Chinese Classics correctly.However,the unearthed Oracle Scripts and the Bronze Scripts proof some of the Wang Kaiyun’s annotations in Eryaare wrong.