敦煌出現の胡笳十八拍

Abstract

To the best of my knowledge, no one has yet called attention to the existnce of the copies the Hu-chia shih-pa p'ai recovered from Tunhuang. When I was in Paris in 1926, I had an opportunity to see two manuscripts of these poems which are preserved in the Collection de Pelliot of the Bibliothèque Nationale. Both are of the so-called Hsiao hu-chia shih-pa p'ai 小胡笳十八拍, attributed to Liu Shang 劉商 of the T'ang. The manuscripts appear to date from the late T'ang. They are roughly written and contain many errors and omissions. They are noteworthy for the fact that the preface to the poems is different from that found in printed copies of the Hsiao hu-chia shih-pa p'ai, which date from the Sung or later; and for the fact that they include a "Nineteenth p'ai" in addition to the usual eighteen. The Hsiao hu-chia shih-pa p'ai, it should be noted, are completely different from the so-called Ta hu-chia shih-pa p'ai 大胡笳十八拍 attributed to Ts'ai Yen 蔡琰 of the Latter Han, whose authenticity was the center of controversy in China last year between Kuo Mo-jo 郭沫若 and Liu Ta-chieh 劉大杰. Though they have no direct connection with the Ta hu-chia shih-pa p'ai, however, they would appear to offer support to Liu Ta-chieh's views in the controversy.