《尧典》的真实性及其星象的年代  

On the Authenticity of Yao Dian and the Age of Its Starlike Image

作　　者：武家璧[1] 

机构地区：[1]中国科学院国家天文台,北京100012

出　　处：《晋阳学刊》2010年第5期78-82,93,共6页Academic Journal of Jinyang

摘　　要：《尧典》的成书年代历来有争议,殷墟甲骨文的相关记载表明《尧典》确实保存了商代以前的天文历法知识。至少在战国以前,《尧典》已有了流传较广的定本。《尧典》记载的四时星象是"昏中星"。以往中外学者使用赤道方法计算《尧典》星象的天文年代,然而西汉以前盛行盖天说,采用赤道方法并不适宜。今据有关文献记载,采用地平方法复原《尧典》昏星赤经,求解其年代距今4200多年,与传说中的尧帝时代基本符合。The time about Yao Dian being completed has always been controversial. The record of the Yinxu＇s oracle bone inscriptions shows that some knowledge of the astronomy and calendar before Shang Dynasty was recorded in Yao Dian. The starlike image at four seasons recorded in Yao Dian was the ＂culminant star at evening＂. In the earlier times, Chinese and foreign scholars used equator method to calculate the astronomical age of this starlike image of Yao D/an, but the heavenly canopy hypothesis was prevalent before the Western Han Dynasty, so using the equator method wasn＇t suitable. In accordance with the records of related document, the horizon method was adopted to recover the right ascension of evening star in the Yao Dian and assert that it was completed about 4200 years ago,which basically conforms to the age of Emperor Yao.

关 键 词：《尧典》 中星 星象 地平方法 年代 

分 类 号：K04[历史地理—历史学] P1-09[天文地球—天文学]