历史文本演化下的人物形象变迁:以萧山楼英传记为例

文献多有明代浙江萧山名医楼英入京为明太祖朱元璋治病的记载,但考查明清至今方志、宗谱中的楼英传记,发现这是一个在文本修饰中不断演化、加上口头传扬而形成的故事。精英阶层在楼英传记中为其"儒而未仕"进行委婉修饰,却促进了大众文化中楼英形象的"神仙化"转变,有必要通过文本回溯进行区分,慎重书写现代史志文本。

The Transformation of An Image in the Evolution of Historical Texts:A Case Study of Xiaoshan Lou Ying's Biographies

Many records of Lou Ying,a famous Ming Dynasty physician of Xiaoshan,Zhejiang Province,who went to the capital to provide treatments for Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang,can be found in historical literature.Yet an investigation into Lou Ying's biographies in local records and family genealogies from the Ming and Qing dynasties to the present reveals that this is a story formed through constant textual decoration and oral embroidery.The elite class embellished Lou Ying's figure in his biographies with euphemisms such as“he was learned but took no offices”.But the distortion facilitated the“immotalizing”transformation of Lou Ying's image in popular culture.It is necessary to differentiate through retrospectivean alysis,and to write the texts of modern historical and local records cautiously.