摘要
王榘,清晚期汉中褒城县人,曾任户部员外郎,晚年长期任汉南书院山长.现发现王榘手札两通,内容围绕其大女儿的婚事展开,亦涉及王榘早年选择留京补缺的艰难心路历程及其在京生活困苦和补缺名次等状况,是反映晚清汉中籍京官生活的重要文献资料.通过对两通手札的多维度考释,厘清了王榘的作信时间和早年职官身份等问题,既可管窥晚清京官生活之窘迫,亦能体会拔贡补缺之不易,弥补史传记载之不足.
Abstract
Wang Ju,a native of Baocheng County,Hanzhong in the late Qing Dynasty,once acted as a member of the Ministry of hubu,and long held the schoolmaster of Hannan Academy in his later years.It was found that two letters of Wang Ju wrote home(hanzhong),the contents which revolved around the marriage of his eldest daughter,and also involved the difficult mental journey of Wang Ju in his early years staying in Beijing,was the epitome of Beijing officials's life of people from hanzhong in the late Qing Dynasty.At present,the academic circle has not paid enough attention to Wang Ju,only a few scholars have studied him,and mainly focused on his outstanding contribution to the education in Hanzhong,and seldom talked about his early life in Beijing.Through the multi-dimensional research of the two letters,it can be clarified the correct time of Wang Ju's letter and his early official status in Beijing,which can not only give a glimpse of the poor life on officials in the late Qing Dynasty,but also understand the difficulty of being an official in Beijing,and make up deficiency of history.