绝代经巢第一流:西南大儒郑珍的小学研究

Achievements of Zheng Zhen in Traditional Chinese Philology

西南大儒郑珍在《说文》学、古文字学、近代汉字学和训诂学等传统小学研究领域成果丰硕。他善于综合形、音、义来考释文字,长于利用文献体例内外部求证来校勘古籍,通过典籍之间的渊源关系来梳理《说文》版本的流传,详考逸字和新附字来源,廓清逸字范围,严于"古文""奇字"之辨,沟通正俗异体关系,揭示汉字的俗写规律,阐述历代宗族亲属称谓,考证其源流演变。郑珍继承和发展了清儒朴学治学传统,自成一家,对晚清学术转变产生了积极影响,推动了"黔学"纳入主流学术史,开启了清代朴学的黔派范式。

Zheng Zhen,a learned Confucian scholar in the southwest of China,made great achievements in traditional Chinese philology,covering studies of the Shuowen Jiezi,paleography,modern Chinese characters,and exegesis.He examined Chinese characters through the combination of their pattern,pronunciation,and meaning,collated ancient works through the use of internal and external materials about their literary style and layout,analyzed the spread of different versions of the Shuowen Jiezi through the study of the interrelations in ancient books and records,and explored the sources of omitted and added characters in that book.He was strict in distinguishing ancient and odd characters,clarifying the relationship between standard and non-standard characters,revealing the rules for non-standard forms of Chinese characters,and explaining clan and kinship terminology of the past dynasties and their source and evolution.He formed his own style of studies by inheriting and developing the textual criticism by Qing Confucian scholars.His studies had a positive influence on the academic transformation in the late Qing dynasty and he himself promoted the channeling of Qianxue into the mainstream of academic history and opened up the Qian School of textual criticism in his period.