即使从宋、元平话算起,我国的说书艺人至今少说也得以十万计。其中的优秀者,生前、死后都有人评说。但是,没有哪一个说书艺人像柳敬亭(1 592-约1 672)那样,在四百余年里始终有人评说和研究。201 2年是柳敬亭诞辰420周年。由柳敬亭的故乡泰州市凤城可管委会牵头编纂,将柳敬亭生前、死后至今四百余年间的有关评说、研究柳敬亭其人其艺的著作搜罗殆尽,然后,请刘宁主编、董耀鹏作序,历时三年,终于编成《柳敬亭研究》一书,其70.7万字。凤凰出版社(原江苏古籍出版社)于2013年9月出版。通读全书,我认为,它是古代名人研究中的扛鼎之作。一是“集大成”。还在柳敬亭生前,明末、清初的著名文人张岱(1597-1 694),即在《柳敬亭说书》中盛赞其高超的说书艺术:“其描写刻画,微入毫 Even from the words of Song and Yuan Ping, the number of storytelling artists in China has so far dropped to 100,000. One of the best, during his lifetime and after death, was commented. However, no one storytelling artist, like Liu Jingting (1 592 - John 1 672), has been criticized and studied for more than 400 years. 201 2 years is the 420th birthday of Liu Jingting. The hometown of Liu Jingting Taizhou City Fengcheng can be managed to lead the editorial will be Liu Jingjing during his lifetime, since the death of more than four hundred years of commentary, study of Liu Jingting his works of art collected, and then please editor Liu Ning, Dong Yaopeng preface, which lasted for three years, finally compiled ”Liu Jingting research“ a book, its 707,000 words. Phoenix Publishing House (formerly Jiangsu Ancient Books Publishing House) was published in September 2013. Throughout the book, I think it is the ancient celebrity research carried the tripod. First, ”Dacheng “. Liu Jingting is still alive before the end of the Ming and early Qing dynasties famous scholar Zhang Dai (1597-1 694), that is, in the ”Liu Jingting story book,“ praised its superb art of storytelling: ”