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Chinese Manuscript of the 10th Century “Dispute of Tea and Wine” Discovered in “Dunhuang Library”

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Novosibirsk State University, Voytishek, E. E., Osipov, G. V., Novosibirsk State University·2018·Vestnik NSU. Series: History and Philology

Abstract

КИТАЙСКАЯ РУКОПИСЬ X ВЕКА «СПОР ЧАЯ И ВИНА» КАК ОДНО ИЗ ОТКРЫТИЙ «ДУНЬХУАНСКОЙ БИБЛИОТЕКИ» Китайская рукопись X в.Ван Фу «Спор Чая и Вина» (茶酒論 «Ча цзю лунь»), обнаруженная в начале XX в. в пещерном комплексе Могао близ г.Дуньхуан в пров.Ганьсу, давно привлекает внимание специалистов.Комплекс Могао, также известный как Дуньхуанские пещеры, приобрел всемирную известность не только благодаря настенным росписям и статуям IV-XIV вв., но также из-за уникального собрания древних манускриптов и ксилографов на разных языках, получившего название «Дуньхуанской библиотеки».Оригинал рукописи «Спор Чая и Вина» попал в число манускриптов, вывезенных из Дуньхуана французским синологом П. Пельо (1878-1945).Это небольшой и остроумный текст, построенный в форме поединка двух сторон о роли, функциях и достоинствах каждого напитка, который изящно завершается еще одним участником -Водой, которая и примиряет спорщиков.Произведение написано в популярном жанре буддийских притч бяньвэнь.Текст, изобилующий историко-литературными аллюзиями, создан с использованием рифмы и элементов ритмической прозы, что свидетельствует об эрудиции и художественном вкусе автора.Перевод памятника, публикуемого впервые в отечественном востоковедении, выполнен авторами статьи по оригинальному списку произведения из Национальной библиотеки Франции («Pelliot fonds chinois 2718») с привлечением реконструированного текста оригинала и сопровождается необходимым историко-филологическим комментарием.

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The article introduces and publishes the first full Russian translation of the 10th-century Chinese manuscript “Dispute of Tea and Wine” (“Cha jiu lun”), attributed to Wang Fu and discovered in the Dunhuang/Mogao cave library. It presents the text as a bianwen-style debate between Tea and Wine that is resolved by Water, with historical-philological commentary.

Key findings

  • The manuscript is a small, witty text of 1035 characters (the artistic text itself contains 988 signs), built as a dispute between Tea and Wine over their roles, functions, and merits, with Water appearing at the end to reconcile them.
  • It is known in six lists: four in the Paul Pelliot Foundation at the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris and two in the British Museum in London; the translation uses the original list “Pelliot fonds chinois 2718.”
  • The work is written in the popular Buddhist parable genre bianwen, with rhyme and elements of rhythmic parallel prose, and is divided into an introduction, the Tea–Wine dialogue, and Water’s concluding speech.
  • The article states that the full Russian translation of the monument is published for the first time in Russian Oriental studies.

Methods

  • The authors translated the text from the original Pelliot list “Pelliot fonds chinois 2718,” using a reconstructed Chinese text to correct semantic errors and omissions.
  • The work is accompanied by historical-philological commentary; the authors also consulted a French translation and materials from the Musée national des Arts asiatiques–Guimet in Paris.
  • The article discusses textual variants between the original and reconstructed versions, including homophonic character substitutions, substitutions based on differing radicals/keys, and additions or omissions of characters.

Limitations

  • The paper states that the original Pelliot list is full of errors, inaccurate word usage, and various marks, complicating translation and textual segmentation.
  • It notes dating ambiguity: the colophon points either to 970 or 972, and the meaning of “zhi-shu yuan” is difficult to interpret.
  • The paper states that little is known about Wang Fu’s life and activities, that genre attribution has several competing views, and that the text does not specify which types of tea and wine are meant.

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Crossref · 10.25205/1818-7919-2018-17-4-75-92

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    The reconstructed text of the original used for the translation accurately represents the original manuscript.

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  • A tenth-century text is said to allude to a sixteenth-century author's fable

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    The note identifies the fable invoked by the manuscript as the work of a writer who lived in 1544-1609, while the paper dates the manuscript to the tenth century. As stated, the manuscript could not allude to that author's work.

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    The citation points to page 2 of Song Zhenhao's 2002 article, but the bibliography lists that article on pages 61-67.

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  1. Dmitriev S. V. The East. Afro-Asian societies: history and moderni- ty, 2011, № 4, p. 108-115. (in Russ.) Gu Xiangyang. Zhongguo duilianxue yanjiu [谷向阳。中国对联学研究]. The study of the Chi- nese paired inscriptions. Beijing daxue xuebao, 1998, № 4, vol. 35, p. 125-134. (in Chin.) Kitayskiye dokumenty iz Dun'khuana. Faksimile. Izdaniye tekstov, per. s kit., issled. i pril.

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Authors
Novosibirsk State University, Voytishek, E. E., Osipov, G. V., & Novosibirsk State University
Venue
Vestnik NSU. Series: History and Philology
Published
2018
Volume
17
Issue
4
Pages
75-92
ISSN
1818-7919 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2888177582
Cited by
1
References
0
Citations by year
2020: 1
FWCI
4.49
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
cc-by
Locations
Vestnik NSU Series History and Philology (publishedVersion, cc-by)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Libraries, Manuscripts, and Books
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Chinese history and philosophy
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Classical Studies and Philology
Keywords
tea, wine, Dunhuang Library, Dunhuang Mogao Caves, Wang Fu, rhyme, Dunhuang manuscripts

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