葛洪卒年新议

关于葛洪卒年,众说纷纭,其中六十一岁说和八十一岁说影响较大.尽管原始材料语焉不详,但是通过逻辑分析,六十一岁说比较符合历史原貌.八十一岁说产生较晚,与之同时产生的是葛洪"尸解"的说法,这体现出东晋南朝以及唐初道教的兴盛.

On the Date of Ge Hong's Death

From all the statements about the date of Ge Hong's Death,there are two important viewpoints,one is the sixty-year-old argument,the other is the eighty-one-year-old argument.Despite of the insufficience of the original material,we can make a conclusion that the former is right by analysis.At the same time,there is a legend that Ge Hong became a deity and rose into heaven,which was called decomp.The reason of this legend is the prosperity of the Taoism in the Eastern Ch'in Dynasty,the Southern Dynasty and th...