著名历史学家范文澜先生生前曾有一联治学名言,这就是众所熟知的“板凳要坐十年冷,文章不著一字空”。这十四个字,虽然是就一切做学向的因果关系而言之,但我以为其于从事考证工作的研究者来说,又尤为重要。最近由吴汝煜、胡可先合著的《全唐诗人名考》(江苏教育出版社版)即是一部扎根在“冷板凳”上的硕果,一部集当今唐诗人名考订之大成的巨制。 Well-known historian Fan Wenlan had a famous student in his lifetime, which is well-known “bench to sit ten years cold, the article is not a word empty”. These fourteen words, though speaking in all causal terms, are of particular importance to researchers engaged in textual research. Recently, the essay entitled “Full Tang poet name test” (Jiangsu Education Press) co-authored by Wu Ruyu and Hu Kexian is a fruit rooted in the “Cold Bench”.