从战国楚简看通行《周易》版本的价值

Viewing the value of the current version of Zhouyi by comparing it with the version of the bamboo slips of Chu

作者通过比较今本和楚简《周易》,认为战国楚简与今本《周易》无论是卦符、卦名。还是卦爻辞,整体内容和文辞意义都没有很大的差别,今本虽然经过后世整理,但是文字上仍保留了许多与战国本完全相同或意义相同的文字,这种今本与战国本相关联的事实,无可争辩地证明了今本仍然是《周易》各种版本中最重要的版本,今本整体上优胜于战国本和其他本,其权威性并没有因为近几年许多《周易》文本的出土而削弱和动摇。当然,今本并非十全十美,个别地方仍有错误,不必盲目崇拜。还有个别字的意义,今本不如战国本更清楚。

By comparing the Zhouyi of the current version and that of the bamboo slips of Chu, the author concludes that there is no sharp differences between the two versions, no matter in the symbols, names of hexagrams, remarks affiliated to the hexagrams and lines, or the connotations of the characters. Though the current version resulted from the sorting out in the later dynasties, it preserved a great number of characters identical to those in the Warring States Period or synonyms. The correlation between the two versions indisputably demonstrated the current version in general is still the most important one and superior to the version of the bamboo slips of Chu and other versions, and its authority was not weakened or undermined by the excavation of other versions. Surely, the current version is not a sheer perfect one and should not be blindly admired, for there are still some mistakes in it, with some characters not clearer than those in the version of bamboo slips of Chu.