《儒林外史》故事编年及相关问题

《儒林外史》是一部故事时间跨度超越百年的小说。确定书中故事发生的时间顺序及时间间隔，对于把握纷杂的情节推进，甚至了解作者写作方式、判断作品内容的真伪、作品传抄过程中的错漏都有非常的帮助。但由于种种原因，迄今为止，对于这一问题的研究仍未有突破性的进展。本文拟从作品内容互证、明清社会事实等方面确定《儒林外史》的故事编年，并从编年的角度出发，来判断和回答章培恒等各位先生对于故事时间推进与相关情节是否扣合的问题。

The Scholars:Annals and Related Issues

Abstracts:The Scholars is a novel composed of stories with a time span of over 100 years .Finding out the time sequence and interval of those stories is helpful for learning about their complicated plots and the author's ways of writing ,judging the authenticity of their contents ,and discovering clerical mistakes and o‐missions .However ,there is no breakthrough in the study of these issues .The paper is intended to determine the annals of The Scholars from the perspective of mutual confirmation of the stories and social facts of the Ming and Qing Dynasties ,and to answer the question of Professor Zhang Peiheng whether the time sequence of the stories is consistent with the related plots based on the annals .