最近报上有两篇关于“谭”和“谈”的文章,引起了语文爱好者的关注。一篇见于《光明日报》(转载,原出处未考),题为《〈天方夜谭〉为何不用“谈”》;一篇见于《周末》,题为《“谭”与“谈”通用始于何时》。前者认为唐武宗名李炎,“谈”字右半边为“炎”,唐人因避武宗讳,将“谈”改写成“谭”,以后相沿成习,“谈”和“谭”就相通了。后者认为早在西晋时代,“谭”已经可通“谈”,并非到唐武宗时代才通用的,由此可见和避讳无关,但作者只是摘引辞书中的书证,未说清谭、谈相通的来龙去脉。为此,本刊特请编委金文明先生作了番考证,现将金先生的看法刊登于下,供读者朋友参考。《光明日报》和《周末》两文也摘要一并刊出。 Two recent articles on “Tan” and “Talks” have aroused the concern of Chinese language enthusiasts. One is found in the “Guangming Daily” (reproduced, the original source did not test), entitled “Why not talk about”; a found in the “weekend”, entitled “Tan” and “talk” universal beginning When? “ The former holds that Tang Wuzong’s name Li Yan and the right half of ”Tan“ are ”Yan“. The Tang people rewritten ”Tan“ as ”Tan“ due to the taboos for avoiding the ” . The latter thinks that as early as in the Western Jin Dynasty, “Tan” had been connected with “talk”, which was not common to the Tang and Wuzong era. Therefore, the author has nothing to do with taboo, but the author only quoted the documentary evidence in the dictionaries, The ins and outs. For this reason, this publication specially invited the editorial board member Jin Wenming to make the textual criticism, now the opinion of Mr. Jin is published in the next, for the reader friend reference. “Guangming Daily” and “Weekend” two articles are also summarized together.