自本刊1989年第5期“青年园地”栏刊载了郭利群同志的《杀人何必恶婆婆——试析刘兰芝爱情悲剧的原因》一文之后,一些读者先后来函发表了不同的意见。因为这是一个争讼已久的问题,至今还未能得出一致的结论,各种说法都还有值得商榷之处(这恐怕与《孔雀东南飞》是一部文学作品而非历史事实有关),因此本刊不能一一刊载来函陈述的各种意见。潘朝禄、车光斌同志的文章概括介绍了近年来的几种主要观点,有助于了解关于这一问题的研究状况,故在此发表。 Since the publication of the column of “Youth Garden” of No. 5 in 1989, Comrade Guo Liqun has published a paper entitled “Why should I kill a mother-in-law-Why Liu Lanzhi’s Love Tragedy”, some readers have sent different opinions in succession. Because this is a long-standing dispute, so far it has not been able to reach any unanimous conclusion. All the arguments are open to question (this may be related to “a peacock flying south-east” as a literary work rather than historical facts ) Therefore, we can not publish the various opinions contained in the communication one by one. An article by Pan Zhaolu and Che Guangbin summarizes several major points of view in recent years and helps to understand the state of the research on this issue and is hereby published here.