走出“常识”的误区--中学语文教材中《水浒传》作者署名辨正

A Discussion on the Authorship of the Chinese Text Excerpted from the Novel the Water Margin

中学语文教材经常选录《水浒传》中的经典篇目作为课文,教材编写者往往将《水浒传》选录篇目的作者题署为施耐庵。这种做法不符合古代的文献记录与《水浒传》文本的刊刻实际,容易以讹传讹,给学生传播错误的知识。文章以大量文献参考为依据,分别从“罗贯中著”说、“施耐庵、罗贯中合著”说、“施耐庵著”说三个层面进行论证,认为对于《水浒传》的署名,在没有确凿证据证明为施耐庵著之前,应当尊重历史,以施耐庵、罗贯中合著为宜。

Some texts in the Chinese textbook of middle schools are excerpted from the classic novel the Water Margin,and the textbook editors claim the authorship of these texts as Shi Naian.However,this practice is not in accord with the traditional way of the documentation of ancient literature and the fact of publication,which is misleading to students.As for the authorship of the Water Margin,it is argued that the textbook editors are supposed to change the authorship of the texts from Shi Naian only to Shi Naian co-authored with Luo Guan-zhong for the sake of the historic fact.