饶宗颐先生《星马华文碑刻系年（纪略）》之学术价值管窥

华侨大学 黄海德^*

摘  要 新加坡与马来西亚的华文宗教碑铭对于研究东南亚华侨华人的历史与文化具有颇为重要的学术价值，但在20世纪上半期，由于各种客观原因该项研究并未受到社会与学界的重视。直至60年代，饶宗颐教授秉承王国维先生将地下文物与纸上文献相互印证的人文学术传统，认为研究东南亚华侨社会与历史，“碑刻为史料之最足征信者”，故在新、马地区搜集华文碑刻资料撰成《星马华文碑刻系年（纪略）》，既为东南亚华侨华人的历史文化研究增添了颇为珍贵的碑刻文献资料，又为“南中金石学开拓了新领域”，更为可贵的是饶先生亲身利用《系年》所收录之华文碑刻史料，对新马地区华侨华人的历史演变、宗教信仰、社团组织、语言文字、书院教育乃至经济生活、文化传承等方面做出了颇有价値的学术考证与研究，具有海外华文碑刻研究的开拓之功，实为东南亚华侨华人文献研究的重要学术成果。

关键词 饶宗颐  新马地区  华文碑刻  《星马华文碑刻系年》

Study on Academic Value of Jao tsung-I’s “Annals of Chinese Inscriptions in Singapore and Malaya”

Huang Hai-de

(Huaqiao University)

Abstract: The Chinese religious inscriptions in Singapore and Malaya have important academic value for the study on overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia, however, the society and academics didn’t attach importance to them because of various objective reasons in the first half of twentieth Century. Until 1960s, Professor Jao tsung-I inherited “dual attestation”, the humanistic academic tradition which is started by Wang Guowei. Jao tsung-I considers that the inscriptions are the most reliable historical materials on the study of Society and history of overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia, therefore he collected Chinese inscriptions in Singapore and Malaya and wrote a book entitled “Annals of Chinese Inscriptions in Singapore and Malaya”. This book adds precious materials of inscriptions to the study on the history and culture of overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia, but also opens up new horizons for the study on ”Nanzhong Epigraphy”. What’s more, Jao tsung-I uses the Chinese inscriptions which he collected, to make a value of academic research and study on the history, religious, corporation, language, education, economic and cultural inheritance of overseas Chinese in Singapore and Malaya. His research and study opens up the study on overseas Chinese inscriptions, it is important academic achievements in the study of overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia.

Keywords: Jao tsung-I; Singapore and Malaya; Chinese inscriptions; “Annals of Chinese Inscriptions in Singapore and Malaya”