《回乡偶书》的“衰”“摧”“催”之辨

THE DIFFERENCE AMONG CHARACTER VERSIONS IN AN IMPROMPTU POEM ON RETURNING HOME

《回乡偶书》中的"衰""摧""催"之争,历时200多年,至今未有定论。采用全文检索及大数据的全新研究方法,通过考证版本源流、分析音义韵律以及词组出现频率,对其进行了全方位的考察,得出的结论是:"鬓毛衰"是正版,"衰"在灰韵中读作shuāi也没有问题。

There has been an unresolved dispute on three versions of character in the second line of An Impromptu Poem on Returning Home exists for over 200 years.Through full-text search and big data analysis,this poem is fully examined by the textual research on different versions,the phonological,semantic and prosodic analysis,and the search of concurrence frequency.The conclusion can be drawn that the authorized version should be shuāi character,with a pronunciation in Hui Rhyme.