唐朝初年重修《晋书》原因新探

重修《晋书》,是唐朝官方于贞观20年(646年)组织的一次大规模修史活动,关于这次活动出现的原因,陈寅恪认为是唐廷企图通过篡改晋史,“尊扬皇室,证明先世之渊源”,李培栋认为是“由于一系列政治事件对太宗的刺激”,太宗要借修史为自己辩解、向大臣发出劝诫和获得内心慰解.实际上,这两种解释均难成立.唐朝之所以重修《晋书》,是因为此前诸家“晋书”在内容、体裁、史学观、史料采择等方面存在各种缺陷,不能适应唐初的政治形势和时代要求.正是因此,据唐人李延寿记载,早在贞观十五年(641年),唐朝可能已经出现过《晋书》的修撰活动.

An Examination of the Reasons of Rewriting The History of the Jin Dynasty in the Early Tang Dynasty

The rewriting of The History of the Jin Dynasty is a large-scale academic project in the early Tang Dynasty (646).There was much controversy over the reasons of this official campaign.CHEN Yin-que thought that the Tang emperor attempted to sancify the imperial family and the origin of his ancestors by falsifying the history of the Jin Dynasty.LI Pei-dong held that a series of political events prompted Tang Taizong,the emperor,to defend himself,admonish the courtiers and at the same time acquire some inner comforts throuth the rewriting of the Jin history.But none of the interpretations are correct.Acrually The History of the Jin Dynasty was written in the early Tang Dynasty mostly because the former versions of theJin history had great deficiencies in contents,format and the selection of data,therefore could not meet the political needs of the early Tang Dynasty.According to the records of a Tang Historian Li Yan-shou,the rewriting of The History of the Jin Dynasty was originally conducted in 641