再论明代茅山全真道士闫希言师徒是《西游记》定稿人--闫希言传记读后

由于朱明皇室在道教中扶持正一而压抑全真,生活在江苏茅山乾元观的全真道士闫希言师徒,面对权势,在定搞今本《西游记》后,曲折署名“华阳洞天主人校”。从四种有关闫氏的传记看,他们不仅具有作为今本《西》书定稿者的才能、易理及丹学修养,而且也具有刊布《西》书的经费来源。序文作者陈元之,很可能是闫氏师徒化名,故其序也可能是定稿者自白,应予高度重视。

A Second Thought of the Fact that Pilgrimage to the West Is Finalized by Yan Xiyan-A Quanzhen Taoist Priest of Maoshan in the Ming Dynasty and His Students:An Impression of Yan Xiyan's Biography

Owing to the Ming Emperors' favoring the school of Zhengyi and discriminating against that of Quanzhen in their attitudes towards Taoism,after their finaliztion of the current version of Pilgrimage to the West,Quanzhen Taoist priest Yan Xiyan and his students,who lived in the Qianyuan Guan Temple of Maoshan of Jiangsu Province,had to named the authors themselves "Master of Hua yang dong tian(dwelling of immortals in the cave of Huayangdong)" confronting the authority power and position.Four biographies about Yan Xiyan show that Yan and his students not only pocess the talent of finalizing the fiction,a good mastery of Yi Jing and a grasp of panacea theory,but also have the fun to print the novel.The writer of the preface for the novel most probably passed by the name of Chen Yuanzhi and the preface is most likely the vindication of the finalizers themselves,to which importance shall be attached.