《英烈春秋》三种传本考索

A Textual Research on the Three Biographical Versions of The Heroes of the Spring and Autumn Period

《英烈春秋》现存的三种重要汉文传本中,首图文本是某个底本的转制本,它与东二酉堂本皆非艺人演述实录,而是经过加工的整理本;东二酉堂本、首图本与木鱼书本属于同一故事系统,三者文本可溯源至同一文本源头,但尚不能证明这三个文本之间存在相互借鉴或承袭。它们极有可能只是《英烈春秋》文本流变过程中的一个节点,而非源头本身。

Among the three existing important Chinese biographical versions of The Heroes of the Spring and Autumn Period,the Shoutu version is a converted version of a certain original.Neither it nor the Dongeryoutang version is the actual record of the artists’performances,but they are collated versions,which have been processed.The Dongeryoutang version,the Shoutu version,and the Muyushu version belong to the same story system,and the three versions can be traced back to the same textual source,but it has not been proved yet that there is any mutual borrowing or inheritance between these three versions.Therefore,it is highly likely that they are only a node in the process of the textual evolution of The Heroes of the Spring and Autumn Period,rather than the source itself.