山东运河区域经济对《水浒传》成书时代上限的有限界定

同宋江起义历史本事及以宋江起义为素材的各种文艺作品相比,《水浒传》中的宋江起义有明显的变化:规模上扩大了,改变了流寇主义的斗争形式,在山东梁山建立了根据地。起义队伍规模的扩大及于山东梁山建立根据地也相应地对山东运河区域提出要求———鲁西地区提供相当程度的物质供应;而梁山起义军在短时间内筹集到300万石军粮决定了《水浒传》产生时期与山东运河区域的经济繁荣密不可分。考察山东运河区域经济的历史状况,能够得出《水浒传》成书的上限在明永乐宣德年之后的结论。

The Upper Limit of Completion Time of the Water Margin Defined by the Canal region Economy in Shandong

In comparison and contrast with various literary works based on the history of Song Jiang Uprising, the Water Margin had obvious changes： the scale was enlarged, and the way of rebel bandit fighting changed into building the base in Liangshan of Shandong. These changes correspondingly required considerable material supply in the canal region. The uprising army raised 3 million dan of grain in a short time, which meant that the comple- tion time of the Water Margin had a close relation with the prosperity of the canal region in Shandong. The textual research of the history of the canal region economy points to the upper limit of the completion time of the Water Margin, after Yongle Xuande of Ming Dynasty.