今传王弼本《老子》分篇分章源流考

摘要

《老子》书大致从战国晚期就开始以道经为上篇、德经为下篇，到王弼为《老子》作注时，《老子》的篇次和章句划分应该初步稳定。唐陆德明采用王弼注为《老子》作音义，并以道、德作为上、下篇题，以后又经历了长时期的流传变化，至明代后期或清代，今传王弼本的篇章结构逐渐固定下来。%Lao Tzu had been divided into two sections since late Warring States Period (Tao as the first and Virtue as the second) and when Wang Bi annotated this book ,the pattern of sectioning and chaptering was partly settled .This tradition was adopted by Lu Deming (in the Tang Dynasty) ,and there has been inheriting and changing in different historical periods .It is till the late Ming Dynasty or early Qing Dynasty that the partition pattern was totally settled .