記憶所繫之墓：盧嘉興對左鎮李公墓碑的探勘、考證與敘事

Lu Chia-Hsing's Mystery Solving:Tracing a Lost Memory of the Ping-pu Tribe from an Ancient Tomb

本文旨在描述盧嘉興（1918-1992）作為一位自學型的民間文史研究者，透過地方文史社群的連結，從臺南左鎮公墓中的一通墓碑，發掘一段平埔家族歷史記憶的過程。目前學界對於日治以來直至戰後地方民俗學與文史掌故的歷史背景，已累積相當可觀的成果，但較少針對個別文史工作者的行動與成果，爬梳地方歷史記憶在戰後如何經由文化社群的互動與連結而逐漸形成具備實證與知識保存意義的歷史紀錄。戰後地方文史者的交集與重新詮釋民間文化知識的脈絡，是本文關注的細節。盧嘉興在1982年發表的〈左鎮公墓內鐫新港籍五品銜李公墓勘考記〉一文，除了描述其個人勘查古墓碑文線索的歷史考據過程外，亦是一份紀錄地方知識網絡互動的材料。該文內容不但考證墓主夫婦來自平埔族群的地方領導家族，同時也記錄了作者推理的過程。從他在解謎過程中與地方文物採集者陳春木的互動，並且與李家後人往來的紀錄中，可觀察地方文史社群在集體協作下形成歷史知識的脈絡。本文將從這篇文章為線索，探討盧嘉興在該篇論文中呈現的學思歷程與敘事特徵，並從《吳新榮日記》中追溯他在50至60年代在臺南縣市文獻會同好互動、往來的細節，共同發展社群研究關懷、挖掘地方歷史記憶的過程。

 

The purpose of this article is to describe and discuss how Lu Chia-Hsing (盧嘉興, 1918-1992), a self-taught folk historian and researcher, excavated a piece of the history and memory of the Ping-pu tribe from a tombstone in the Left Town Public Cemetery in Tainan. While the academic community has accumulated considerable research on how historical memory has been shaped, replicated, and represented since the Japanese colonial period until after World War II, there is little discussion of how fragmented historical memory can be reconnected. It is a highly worthwhile topic to explore how local activists find, organize, analyze, and write historical knowledge that has already been forgotten or even erased, to preserve it as empirical and knowledge-bearing evidence. In Lu’s article written in 1982, he not only describes the process of historical research on the tombstone inscription, but also provides material for recording the interactions of local knowledge networks. The article not only establishes the historical evidence that the couple buried in the tomb were from the Ping-pu tribe and were local leaders, but also records the author’s reasoning process. From his interactions with local collectors of cultural relics, such as Chen Chun-mu(陳春木), and the records of his contacts with the descendants of the Li family, it can be observed how local folk history communities formed the context of historical knowledge through collective collaboration. This article will explore Lu’s personal learning process and narrative characteristics from this article as a clue, and from his interactions with Wu Hsin-Jung(吳新榮) in the 1950s and 1960s, we will explore how folk historians collaborate with communities to excavate local historical memories.