再议河南博物院藏熹平石经《乐经》残石

New Insights into the Broken Yuejing Stele in the Henan Museum Collection

王锦生先生认为河南博物院藏两块汉代残石为儒家佚籍《乐经》,属于熹平石经,但《乐经》于西汉时期业已失传,《乐经》之说不能成立。熹平石经所立七经,久为定论,文献与实物都不足以支撑熹平石经中含有《乐经》之说。此两枚残石内容不见于熹平石经所刻七经,故亦不属熹平石经。汉顺帝时期曾重修古乐,在辟雍、太学“作乐器随月律”,并令宋登奏定太学典律,与残石内容相近,残石可能为“汉顺帝重修太学碑”之孑遗。

Professor Wang Jingsheng argues that inscriptions on the two broken stelas unearthed from the Imperial Academy site at Luoyang,currently in the collection of the Henan Museum,should be from The Book of Rhythm and belong to the Xiping stelas.However,considering that The Book of Rhythm was gone during the Western Han dynasty,its related argument could not be arched.And the content of the inscriptions is nowhere to find in Xiping.The Emperor Shun reformed classic music and enacted new rhythm,the content of which is similar with the inscriptions on the two broken stelas.Therefore,the two stelas should have been related to Emperor Shun’s reformation.