海外珍本《麻杈棍谱》若干问题研究

An Exploration on the Classic Reserved Overseas: Ma Cha Gun Pu

《麻杈棍谱》,两册,清抄本,单鱼尾板框,楷书,现藏美国普林斯顿大学的东亚图书馆,大约本世纪前后传入国内。全谱内容大致可分三大部分:起始是两篇序文,继而为108式棍法图,最后是两篇有关枪棒的介绍性短文。该谱无论其装帧、品相还是绘图,在清代的武术抄本中,均属上乘。关于此谱,历来的文献典籍未见著录,迄今尚未发现相同本子,学界也少有研究。文章就《麻杈棍谱》的作者、文本年代以及传承源流和谱中的棍法图式等若干问题进行了厘定考释。

Ma Cha Gun Pu,which is a two-volume,Qing handwritten edition,is bound in single fishtail way and written in standard script.This classic is now kept in the East Asian Library in the Princeton University and introduced back to China at the beginning of this century.The book is divided into three parts:2 prefaces,108 gun styles and 2 short articles about bang.It is particular outstanding compared to the rest of Qing handwritten classics in terms of the bookbinding,condition and illustrating pictures.Its existence is not mentioned in any literature or books,nor does it has any copy,thus many studies related to this classic are made in the academic world.This paper does an exploration on the author,written time,origin of its inheritance and gun style in the illustrating picture of Ma Cha Gun Pu.