宋元时期汀州官私刻书考略

A Research in Government & Privately-Sponsored Book Engraving Activities in Tingzhou in the Song and Yuan Dynasties

南宋时期,汀州的官刻十分活跃,留下不少精美的古籍善本。建阳詹尚首刊《绀珠集》,把雕版印刷技术从刻书中心建阳带到汀州,为明清时期闽西连城四堡刻书业的辉煌奠放了第一块基石。朱熹弟子杨方,在汀州刻印《太极通书》,则开临汀私家刻书先河。通过宋元以来的传承,下延至明末清初,汀州的官私刻书,已渐成体系。由此可以推测,四堡书坊刊刻技术源自苏杭的观点似可商榷。

Tingzhou in the Southern Song Dynasty featured active government-sponsored book engraving,and passed down many delicate ancient rare books.Zhan Shang,a native from Jianyang which was the center of book engraving,engraved the debut issue of the Collection of Stories(Gan Zhu Ji),and successfully spread the woodblock printing technology to Tingzhou from Jianyang,laying the cornerstone for the prosperity of book engraving in Sibao of Liancheng in the west of Fujian during the period of Ming and Qing dynasties.Yang Fang,a student of Zhu Xi,engraved the Almanac of Tai Chi in Tingzhou as the first individual to do so.Based on the inheritance from the Song and Yuan Dynasties,book engraving activities launched by the government and individuals in Tingzhou had formed their unique systems by late Ming and early Qing.Thus,the viewpoint that the engraving and publishing technology of Sibao bookstores originated from Suzhou and Hangzhou remains open to question.