华佗传说的口述史意义

On the Significance of Oral History in the Legend of Hua Tuo

民间传说对华佗的历史研究具有“参史之错”“补史之缺”“详史之略”与“与史互证”等方面的功能。它纠正了古代史学著作对华佗性格与为人的评价;给华佗的历史研究提供了更多的史料;让史书中记载的华佗事迹更鲜活、生动;它与正史互为佐证,增强了历史上华佗形象的可信度。在对华佗的历史研究中,我们应该重视与华佗相关的民间口头传承。

Folk legends have the functions of“making mistakes in history reference”,“making up for the deficiency of history”,“detailed records of history”and“mutual verification with history”in the study of Hua Tuo’s history.It corrects the evaluation of Hua Tuo’s character and personality in ancient historical works,and provides more historical materials for the study of Hua Tuo’s history,which also makes Hua Tuo’s deeds recorded in historical books more distinctive and vivid,and mutually corroborates with the official history,thus enhancing the credibility of the image of Hua Tuo in history.In the study of Hua Tuo’s history,we should pay attention to the folk oral inheritance that related to Hua Tuo.