《佩韦室日记》中的肃顺及晚清社会《佩韦室日记》中的肃顺及晚清社会

Su Shun and the Late Qing Society Recorded in Peiwei Chamber Diary

晚清名士高心夔曾出入曾国藩幕府,并授读权臣肃顺府中,其手稿《佩韦室日记》虽所存无多,但其中所载肃顺的资料却有不少,能够帮助我们了解历史上真实的肃顺形象;肃顺的悲剧,某种意义上可说是一种性格悲剧,但同时亦为一种时代悲剧。《佩韦室日记》中关于晚清政局和社会生态的记录,也具有较为重要的历史价值。

In the late Qing Dynasty, the reputed scholar Gao Xinkui (高心夔)once served as a private secretary for Zeng Guofan (曾国藩),and later became a private tutor for the children of the powerful highranking official Su Shun (肃顺).Although only a small part of his manuscript diary entitled Peiwei Chamber Diary (《佩韦室日记》)is still existent, it keeps a lot of information about Su Shun in it, which can help us understand the actual image of Su Shun in historical reality. The tragedy of Su Shun is undoutedly a character tragedy, but it can also be regarded as an epochal tragedy. As Peiwei Chamber Diary recorded the political situation and social ecology of the late Qing Dynasty, it is of important historical value.