雷跃龙卒年考辨

A Textual Research of Lei Yuelong's Year of Death

雷跃龙作为明朝末期及南明永历时期云南玉溪籍的一位重要历史人物,他的卒年有4种不同说法,其中地方文献多予采纳"1661年死于咒水之难"一说,但找不到史料支撑。"广通兵乱被执因痰疾死于庚子(1659)"、"被洪承畴寻访送归辛丑卒于家(1661)"出于同一碑文却相互矛盾,且记叙又都不合常理,漏洞百出。"隐居腾越雪山为僧",为众多史料记载,应是事实,而"为僧后活到79岁,归葬新宁"则还需更多史料支撑。

Concerning the year of death of Lei Yuelong,a very important historical figure of Yuxi,Yunnan,origin in the late Ming dynasty and the Yongli period of the South Ming dynasty,there are four main positions.Local documents mostly use a pure fabrication saying that he died in 1661 in the'Disaster of the Cursed Water'event,as no historical evidence can support this year of his death.Two other arguments appear on one tablet,but both the years(1659and 1661)and the accounts are mutually exclusive and so cannot be valid.That'he went to snow mountains and lived there as a monk'should be true as it appeared in many historical materials.However,the story that he'lived as a monk and died at the age of 79 and buried in Xinning'cannot be accepted as reliable until further evidence is found.