近十年来国内郭店楚简《太一生水》研究述评

《太一生水》自面世以来就引起学界的广泛关注。近十年来国内学者对该文本的研究主要集中在以下几个方面:(一)文本的作者、时代和学派属性;(二)对太一、神明等重要哲学概念的诠释;(三)水在宇宙生成中的地位和作用;(四)宇宙生成图式的描绘;(五)该文本与《老子》的关系;(六)该文本性质是宗教神话论还是自然哲学说。目前的研究既取得很大成绩,也出现不少谬误。而在今后的工作中,探索文本的思想主旨以及从天道环周论来探讨《太一生水》和帛书《黄帝四经》之间的关联是我们研究《太一生水》的新课题。

A Summary of Researches on Tai-yi-sheng-shui of Chu Bamboo Versions Unearthed at Guodian from Academic Circles at Home in the Past Ten Years

Tai-yi-sheng-shui,the taoist work on Chu bamboo slips unearthed at Guodian,has caught the attention of academic circles at home and abroad since it was published.Scholars'points of view on it are mainly concentrated on: 1.Who is the author of the text? When was it written? and which schools of thought does the author belong to? 2.Annotation of the philosophic concepts of tai-yi,shen-ming and so on;3.The status and action of water in the movement of the universe;4.The diagram of the movement of the universe;5.The relationship between the text and Laozi;6.Is it religious myth theory or natural philosophical theory? In the past ten years,a major success was achieved by the scholars at home,but there are still problems.Probing the thought gist of the text and the relationship between Tai-yi-sheng-shui and Huang-di-si-jing are two tasks on researches in the days to come.