宋代溽洲“广海说”考释

The Research on the Location of Ruzhou in Song Dynasty

关于宋代《萍洲可谈》中“溽洲”的史地考证,中外学者从地理环境、贸易海港、水路里程、地名对音与古籍文献记载等角度进行不少研究,对其具体地点,主要存在三种学术观点:一是以罗香林为代表的溽洲“屯门说”(具体又分为“担竿洲说”与“老万山水域说”)。

Compared with the research methods from the perspectives of geographical environment,trading ports,place name pairings,and waterway mileage,the location of Ruzhou in the Song Dynasty which is verified by systematically combing and carefully screening the records of“Ruzhou”in ancient documents since the Song Dynasty,appears to be more practical and reliable.Ruzhou(Guanghai)was only an important node on the South China Sea trade route in Guangzhou during the Song Dynasty,playing the function of Guangzhou’s outer port.There were the five writing methods of“溽洲”“褥洲”“溽州”“褥州”“槈州”in the literature of the past dynasties.The pronunciation of the characters is exactly the same,and only the radicals are slightly different.Not only the same kind of document,but also different versions and manuscripts are prone to be mixed in the process of copying and circulating;the records of different documents are also prone to be mixed.However,in the specific context of the literature,except for the records that clearly refer to the Ruzhou Prefecture(溽州府)in Guangxi,the five are all used to refer to Guanghai(Wei,Zhai,Ying)in Xinning(Taishan)County.