走好敦煌研究之路,引领后学四通八达——项楚先生的学术成就与影响启示录

Follow the Course of Dunhuang Studies and Guide Junior Scholars in All Directions——Mr. Xiang Chu’s Academic Achievements and Influence Inspiration

项楚先生的学术成就与贡献,主要集中在对以王梵志诗、变文和歌辞等为代表的敦煌俗文学文献的大面积精细校订与准确释读,帮助众多读者能够顺利地读懂这些文献。这既有功于恢复敦煌俗文学文献之真貌,又方便后学利用这些文献展开研究,从而更好地保护和传承这些珍贵的历史文献,这便是项先生的大贡献、大功德。巡礼项先生的敦煌学研究,可见其文化守护与传承的担当意识,积学以储宝、酌理以富才的艰苦磨砺,尊重学术、礼敬前贤的谦逊态度,实事求是、无征不信的科学精神,爬罗剔抉、刮垢磨光的卓绝贡献,津梁后学、沾溉文林的永久功德。全面总结项先生敦煌学研究的成就与影响,以及项先生的治学路径和学术品格,对于继承项先生敦煌学研究,从而不断地将敦煌学引向深入,具有重要意义。

The academic achievements and contribution of Mr.Xiang Chu are mainly on the careful editing and accurate interpretation of secular literary documents of Dunhuang represented by Wang Fanzhi’s poems,literature of storytelling and ballad-singing,and ballads so as to help readers better understand these documents.This is good for the restoration of the original state of Dunhuang secular literary documents,convenient for the coming generation to study these documents so as to better protect and inherit these valuable historic documents,and this is Mr.Xiang Chu’s great contribution and merits.In Mr.Xiang’s studies of Dunhuangology,we can see his sense of responsibility of cultural caring and inheritance,his diligent strive of knowledge accumulation and truth exploration,his humble attitude of respect for research and predecessors,his scientific spirit of seeking the truth through the facts and evidence-based judgement,his great contribution of selection from vast material and painstaking polishing,and his everlasting merits and virtue of guiding younger scholars and benefiting the academia.The comprehensive summary of Mr.Xiang achievements,influence,academic methods and virtues is of great significance to inherit his study of Dunhuangology so as to further promote this very study.