论宋初国家藏书与《文苑英华》录文不均衡性的形成

On the Relationship between the National Collection of Books in the Early Song Dynasty and the Unbalanced Recording of Wenyuanyinghua(《文苑英华》)

《文苑英华》按照宋太宗诏令以择录精华、千卷规模的标准编纂而成。其录文极不均衡,所录作家数量庞大,而大量作品集中于少数作家身上。这种录文不均衡性的形成是文献不足与皇权干预协调的结果。宋初馆阁藏书量不够充裕,不利于文章精华的大量选录。作为总集重要材料来源的馆藏宋前文集更少,难以支撑《文苑英华》的千卷规模。文献不足之下,编纂者要遵照君王之令,保证编纂质量,只得增加知名作家作品的录入量,同时从其他书籍中补充作品数量,造成了《文苑英华》录文的不均衡。

Song Taizong asked to extract the essence of the article and compile it into a thousand volumes of Wenyuanyinghua.The book was extremely unbalanced,with a large number of writers,and a large number of works were concentrated on a small number of writers.The imbalance of the collected works was the result of the lack of literature and the intervention of the monarch.In the early Song Dynasty,the national collection was not enough,which was not conducive to a large number of selected works.As an important source of materials,the collection of pre song collected works was much less,so it was difficult to guarantee the scale of a thousand volumes of Wenyuanyinghua.In the case of insufficient literature,editors should follow the order of the king to ensure the quality of compilation,so they had to increase the number of well-known writers’works and supplement the number of works from other books,which leaded to the imbalance of works included in Wenyuanyinghua.