宋代沈园与绍兴府城关系稽考

The Spatial Relationship between Shenyuan Garden and the Walled City of Shaoxing Prefecture during the Song Dynasty

文章详细讨论了宋代沈园与绍兴府城的关系,以回应对沈园地理方位的质疑。通过对古代绍兴等地的地方志相关条目的考察,作者发现地方志中以“府”代指府治方位,其他地点以府治为中心标注方位的情况比较常见。同时参照古舆图和1939年绍兴《地籍图》,进一步证明地方志记载的“府”指的是府治,证明作为沈园方位重要参照的禹迹寺与府治的距离符合史料记载,且明确了其中的方位标注方法细节。以此为依据,可以确定宋沈园在绍兴府城内,其位置与今沈园基本一致,并未错认错定。

This article examines the spatial relationship of Shenyuan Garden(Garden of the Shen Family)with the walled city of Shaoxing Prefecture during the Song Dynasty(960–1279 CE).In ancient Chinese local chronicles,the character fu(prefecture)might refer to the government house of the prefecture within the city(fuzhi)rather than the walled city of the prefecture(fucheng),while other locations were identified with orientations centred around the government house.The distance between the government house of Shaoxing Prefecture and Yuji Temple(Temple of Dayu’s Trace)near Shenyuan Garden,as seen on ancient maps and a modern cadastral map from 1939,could further substantiate this argument.The results show that Shenyuan Garden has existed in its current location within the walled city of Shaoxing since the Song Dynasty.