“北宋先天易学师承谱系”献疑

On the Lineage of the Former Heaven Changes Scholarship in the Northern Song Dynasty

南宋初年,朱震在《汉上易传》中提出北宋先天易学师承谱系:陈抟→种放→穆修→李之才→邵雍。鉴于朱震在当时的学术地位,此说更易于广泛传播,遂成学界定论。但经考究发现,其实陈抟、种放和穆修三人之间并不存在师承关系,此谱系实来源于邵雍之子邵伯温的刻意创造。由于北宋后期存在着对邵雍师承的质疑之声,因此邵伯温初创此说,其本意是为其父的学术渊源进行辩解。尔后再经晁说之的补充与完善,最终构建了完整的北宋先天易学师承体系。

In his Commentary on the Changes written in the early years of the Southern Song dynasty(1127-1279),Zhu Zhen(1072-1138) put forward a table of the lineage of the Former Heaven Changes scholarship:Chen Tuan(871-989)→Chong Fang(955-1015)→Mu Xiu(979-1032)→Li Zhicai(980-1045)→Shao Yong(1011-1077).Due to Zhu Zhen’s academic position at that time,this view was widely shared and established in academia.However,further scrutiny proved that there was no teacherstudent relationship between Chen Tuan,Chong Fang,and Mu Xiu and the lineage was actually deliberately created by Shao Yong’s son Shao Bowen(1055-1134) in order to respond to the doubts having arisen since the later years of the Northern Song dynasty about the lineage of his father’s teaching,and justify his father’s academic origin.This line of transmission was further supplemented and optimized by Chao Shuozhi later and Zhu Zhen set up the final complete table of the lineage of Former Heaven Changes scholarship in the Northern Song dynasty.