从传播角度看《三国志通俗演义》的成书年代

On the Completion Time of the Book Popular Historical Romance of the Three Kingdoms from the Angle of Propagation

学术界普遍认为,《三国志通俗演义》一书的故事内容是累积而成的,但又认为其文本是出自某一人之手,因此文本的成书不是累积而成,从而对其成书年代产生了种种分歧。从传播角度对这一问题重新思考,可以发现其文本的写定同样有一个累积或演变过程,其起点应在元末,而其终点则应定为嘉靖元年即该本正式刊行之日。

It is generally held by in the academic circles that the stories narrated in the book The Popular Historical Romance of the Three Kingdoms were the creation of many people, but the final written text was produced by a single person. However, there has a controversy over the completion time of the book. The present article is a reexamination of this issue from the perspective of propagation, and has come to the following conclusion: the completion of the written version is a process which started from the end of the Yuan Dynasty and ended by the first year of Jiajing Emperor when the book was finally published.