六经图碑述考

A Textual Research on the Tablets of The Paintings of the Six Classics

传世《六经图》,唯《四库全书》所收一种。近得外祖父所藏《六经图》碑本拓片一套,与四库所收,多所不同。考《六经图》首撰为宋人杨甲,其后,历朝多有增删补缀,大体沿两条线索发展:一从昌州石本到信州石本,为碑本体系;一从程森刻本到吴继仕刻本,为书版体系。书版体系经明清学者“臆为窜乱”已非杨甲原本;碑本体系则保存了宋元体格,更具有史料价值。

Of all the various editions of The Paintings of the Six Classics, only the edition included in The Complete Library in Four Divisions ( Si Ku Quan Shu ), has been handed down. The author of this paper, however, has recently got hold of a set of the tablet rubbings of The Paintings of the Six Classics from his grandfather' s library, which is, in many aspects, different from the edition in The Complete Library in Four Divisions to a large extent. Upon examination, it has been verified that it was first written by Yang Jia during the Song Dynasty, and that, during the subsequent dynasties, it has been revised by means of enlargement and abridgement. But, generally speaking, its various editions have evolved themselves along two lines: one is from the Changzhou stone - carved edition to the one of Xinzhou, and they belong to the category of the tablet edition; whereas the other is from Cheng Sen' s wood - carved edition to the on of Wu Shiji' s, and they fall under the category of the book edition. The latter, being revised at will, is no longer what the Yang Jia s edition has been like though; the former retains all its textual features of the Song and Yuan Dynasties, and is consequently of the greater value as historical data.