洋海墓地M4出土《诗经》写本补说

A More Analysis on the Hand-Copied Manuscript of The Book of Songs Excavated in Yanghai Tomb M4

洋海墓地M4出土的《诗经》写本残片书法风格古拙,虽个别笔势近于隶书,但整体而言仍属于楷书。其书风与形制的复古是书写者为表现文本的郑重性而有意为之,并不能据此断定写本时代一定过早。《诗经》写本的文本形制与后世定本毛诗已基本相同,可上溯至简本《诗经》。在前秦至北凉时期,《诗经》应以经文独行为主,经传笺合书的形式应是在南北朝时逐渐形成的。

The hand-copied manuscript fragments of Shijing,The Book of Songs excavated in Tomb M4 at Yanghai look primitively quaint and clumsy in calligraphic style.The handwriting as a whole takes regular script with few strokes close to clerical script.The ancient-styled script and format used in the work just refects the user's intention of making the text formal and solemn,not necessarily means the work is created in earlier times.The format of the Shijing manuscript,which is traced to the bamboo-slip edition of Shijing,features similar to that of the later standard Maoshi.From the Pre-Qin to the Northern-Liang period,the content of Shijing is composed of nothing but classics,the combination of classics and commentaries came out till the Southern and Northern Dynasties.