明唐顺之《左氏始末》刍议

Research on Tang Shunzhi’s Zuo Shi Shi Mo in the Ming Dynasty

唐顺之《左氏始末》改《左传》编年体为纪事本末体,突出了纪事原则,但标目也存在以人分类的现象,甚至是名实不符的情况。《左氏始末》以《左传》作为基本史料来源,还充分参考了《国语》《史记》和后出的其他文献,是对这些文献的综合运用。这些体现了传统体裁由以纪年、记人向纪事转变过程中的变化,反映了唐顺之本人对春秋时代"无义"的整体历史评价,突出了在传统"以史证经"的思路下,对史学价值的特别认可。

Tang Shunzhi’s Zuo Shi Shi Mo(左氏始末)changed the annalistic history chronicle of Zuo Zhuan(左传)into the traditional form of recording major events and highlighted the principle of recording historical events.However,there were some phenomena wherein the topics were categorized by historical figures while the categories did not match the historical facts.Zuo Shi Shi Mo took Zuo Zhuan as the principal historical source,and it also sufficiently referred to Guo Yu(国语)and Shi Ji(史记)as well as other literatures published later.Also it utilized these literatures comprehensively.Such activities illustrated the changes in the traditional writing styles from chronologies and biographies to chronicles.They revealed Tang Shunzhi’s comprehensive historical evaluation of the"injustice"in the Spring and Autumn Period,emphasizing his particular identification concerning the value of history in the traditional method to"prove Confucian classics using history".