"长生殿"考辨

"七月七日长生殿"的"长生殿"是否指骊山所建"长生殿",骊山所建"长生殿"为专用神殿还是李、杨在华清宫的寝所,"长生殿"是李、杨寝所的专用名称还是唐时"寝殿"通称,存在较大争议,今<长恨歌>选本不少注为骊山所建"长生殿".考相关资料,骊山当时确建有"长生殿",但此"长生殿"极不可能为李、杨寝殿.据两唐书、<资治通鉴·唐记>等统计分析,唐时"长生殿"应为尊者、逝者"寝殿"通称,有颂祝、祈祥之意.<长恨歌>当是借用了唐时尊者、逝者寝殿可称为"长生殿"的流俗,以"长生"暗示两情长久的强烈愿望,并以"长生"愿望终遭无情毁坏,构成强烈的悲剧效果.

On "the Palace of Longevity"

There is much controversy over "the Palace of Longevity" in "the Palace of Longevity of July 7", a line from Song of Everlasting Regret composed by Bai Juyi: does it refer to the one built in Mount Lishan? Does the one built in Mount Lishan refer to a special shrine for ancestral tablets or the bedchamber in the Palace Huaqing for the Tang emperor Xuanzong and Yang Guifei, his favorite concubine? It is annotated in many current anthologies of Song of Everlasting Regret to the one built in Mount Lishan. Based on relevant sources, the paper holds that despite the fact that in Mount Lishan it was indeed built, "the Palace ofLongevity" was bynomeans the palace for Emperor Xuanzong and Yang Guifei. According to such historical books as Jiu Tang Shu, Xin Tang Shu, and Zi Zhi Tong Jian.Tang Ji, "the Palace of Longevity" in the Tang Dynasty generally refers to the "bedchamber" for the honored and the deceased, which connotes good wishes and benediction. This reference was used in Song of Everlasting Regret, "longevity" suggesting the intense wish for perpetual love, which, together with its ultimate merciless destruction, succeeds in producinga strongtragic effect.