美国国会图书馆藏孤本《新安女行录》

Xin’an Nü Xing Lu,the Only Existing Copy Collected in The Library of Congress

《新安女行录》二十卷,仅见美国国会图书馆收藏,属孤本。作者程云鹏,清代歙县人,江夏籍,关心时务,喜游历,有文名。他以二三十年搜集、整理之功,撰成此书,收录120余篇文章,记载了数百位明清徽州女性的事迹。此书只有乾隆十五年刻本,受文字狱的影响,刻成后有剜改,以致有不少阙文。作为集中记载新安女性的专门著述,该书保存了丰富的徽州风俗史料和大量女性社会生活资料,是进一步研究徽州妇女问题的重要参考文献。

Xin’an Nü Xing Lu has twenty volumes.It is the only version collected in the Library of Congress.Cheng Yun peng was a famous literary man during the Qing dynasty.He lived in She,a county in Anhui Province,and his birthplace was Jiangxia.He cared about current affairs and liked travelling.He spent 30 years collecting materials.This book included more than one hundred and twenty articles.It recorded hundreds of women’s deeds of Huizhou during the Ming and Qing dynasties.The version published in the fifteen years of the Qianlong reign was the only edition of the book.Influenced by the literary inquisition,it had some modifications after being carved.So that some articles were lost.As a record of women from Xin’an and their lives,this book saved rich historical documents of folk customs and a large number of women’s social lives in Huizhou.It is an important book about the Huizhou women’s issues.