宁阳新见元马之贞《改修堽城坝闸记》残碑考释

Interpretation of the Newly Discovered Remnant Stone Tablet in Ningyang of Ma Zhizhen’s Records on Renovating the Sluice of Gangcheng Dam

2007年9月,山东省宁阳县京杭大运河元代堽城坝(闸)遗址出土元代都水少监马之贞撰《改修堽城坝(闸)记》残碑。该碑残存文字中有关于马之贞任职经历、元代山东运河(济州河、会通河)开凿、管理措施和堽城坝(闸)建设、管理等方面的信息。元代山东运河是京杭大运河全线贯通的关键工程,堽城坝则是其水源调度的关键枢纽,但相关史籍记载甚是简略,工程策划、组织和管理者马之贞的资料也付之阙如。残碑的发现为了解马之贞生平事迹,研究山东运河开凿的时代背景、具体经过以及河漕管理等问题提供了大量第一手史料,具有极为珍贵的史料价值。本文首次将碑文整理刊布,并佐以典籍文献记载,考述残碑所载史实,以补充和更正传世文献的缺失和讹误。

In September 2007, the remnant stone tablet was unearthed at the Gangcheng Dam site of the Yuan dynasty in Ningyang, Shandong province. The remnants stone tablet was inscribed with Records on Renovating the Sluice of Gangcheng Dam written by Ma Zhizhen, a deputy to the chief of the Water Affairs Office in the Yuan dynasty. The remaining inscription on the tablet reveals the information about Ma Zhizhen’s career history, the digging process and relative management measures of canals in Shandong(Jizhou River and Huitong River) in the Yuan dynasty, the construction and management of Gangcheng dam(sluice) and so on. In the Yuan dynasty, the digging of canals in Shandong was a key project for the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, and Gangcheng Dam was the hub of water distribution for the canal. However, there are few records of the project and Ma Zhizhen as an important planner, organizer and manager of the project. The discovery of the remnant tablet provides a large number of extremely valuable first-hand historical data for the study of Ma Zhizhen’s lifestory, the historical background and specific process of digging canals in Shandong and the management of canals and grain transporting. The author makes pubic the tablet inscription for the first time in this paper and conducts a textual research of the historical facts recorded on the remnant tablet on the basis of the documentary records to supplement the missing and correct mistakes in handed down documents.