《汉武故事》作者与成书时代辨析

自唐代始，班固、王俭为《汉武故事》作者两说并行，然两说均难以成立。自宋以来，刘弇等据《故事》中“今上元延”之语断定其作者为西汉成帝时人，此说亦非；盖“今上元延”之谓乃《故事》抄引前人著作原文的遗迹。从《故事》中“汉有六七之厄”、“代汉者当涂高”的谶语和潘岳《西征赋》化引《故事》典故等情况综合分析，《故事》的成书时代应在东汉献帝时期，其作者是一位看到汉家气数已尽、对汉家江山仍有些许留恋的文人，而非亲曹派的文人。

Discriminative Study on the Author and the date of Completion of The Story of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty( Han Wu Story)

The arguments that the author of The Story of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty(Han Wu Story) is either Ban Gu,or is Wang Jian have been circulated ever since the beginning of the Tang Dynasty,but neither of them is tenable.Since the Song Dynasty,Liu Yan and other scholars held that its author was born during the reign of Emperor Cheng of the Western Han Dynasty through "The present reigning Emperor" quoted from The Story,yet it is not true either.For the quotation of "The present reigning Emperor" and so on is,again,quoted from a previously known book.This article holds that The Story of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty(Han Wu Story) was written under the reign of Emperor Xian of the Eastern Han Dynasty,and its author was a man who had witnessed the decline of the destiny of the Han Dynasty and could not bear to part with it,instead of a pro-Cao scholar.