朱曰藩与吴承恩交往述略——为《西游记》作者研究背景解疑

A Brief Comprehensive Exposition on the Communication between ZHU Yuefan and WU Cheng’en——To Solve the Problem of the Author Research Background of Journey to the West

朱曰藩与吴承恩有数十年的交往。在他们的交游中有两件事值得关注:其一,以朱应登、朱曰藩父子为桥梁,吴承恩有机会结识江南才子文征明和王宠;其二,朱曰藩和吴承恩本为少年学伴,但随着二人阅历的增多,他们的分歧日益明显。引发他们在酬唱诗歌中争议的“奇文”应该是《禹鼎志》。《禹鼎志序》是了解吴承恩生平、人生道义、文学观念的重要依据,也是确定吴承恩是《西游记》作者的基本依据之一。《禹鼎志》对于了解吴承恩中年时期的情怀道义和人生状态有重要的作用。

ZHU Yuefan and WU Cheng’en had decades of contacts.There are two things we need to pay attention to in their association:First,with the help of the father ZHU Yingdeng and the son Zhu Yuefan,had WU Cheng’en the opportunity to get to know WEN Zhengming and WANG Chong,the talented men in the south of the Yangtze River region;second,ZHU Yuefan was originally a young learning partner for WU Cheng’en,but with the growth of their experience,their differences became increasingly obvious.It is very likely that the“peculiar writing”led to the dispute in their poems exchanges is the book Yuding Zhi.The Preface of Yuding Zhi is an important basis to understand WU Cheng’en’s life,morality and literary concept,and also one of the basic evidence to confirm that WU Cheng’en is the author of Journey to the West.Yuding Zhi plays an important role in understanding WU Cheng’en’s feelings,morality and life state in his middle age.