《集异新抄》考辨

The Textual Research on“JiYiXinChao”

李振青刊刻于乾隆六十年(1795)的《集异新抄》,是一部以神奇怪异内容为主的文言小说集,因书名页又作《聊斋集异》,部分学者将其作为《聊斋志异》的选编本或仿书续作。其实,李振青并非《集异新抄》的创作者,《集异新抄》是他在明末小说《桐下听然》基础上删减重编而成的。《桐下听然》的主体部分应完成于1629年,但现存德寿堂刻本的刊刻时间当不早于1645年。《桐下听然》的作者并非朱季美或归奉世,而是出自苏州下塘徐氏家族的徐淳让,其字季美,号夸蛾斋主人,大体生活于明万历到清顺治年间。

Li Zhenqing's“JiYiXinChao”,which was published in 1795,is a collection of classical Chinese novels that record the strangeness of the gods.Because the title page is also used as“LiaoZhaiJiYi”,some scholars regard it as the editorial or imitation of“Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio”.In fact,Li Zhenqing is not the creator of“JiYiXinChao”.He is a re-edited piece of the novel“Tong Xia Yin Ran”in the late Ming Dynasty.The main part of“Tong Xia Yin Ran”should be completed in 1629,but the time of the original Deshoutang engraving is not earlier than 1645.The author of“Tong Xia Yin Ran”is not Zhu Jimei or GuiFengshi,but XuChunrang fromfamous“XiatangXu”family of Suzhou in the Ming Dynasty.His courtesy name is JiMei,self-titled KuaEZhaizhuren,living in the Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty.