中国古代天象记录,主要存于正史天文志中。作为"点校本二十四史及《清史稿》修订工程"的一部分,我们将用现代天文方法对其中所有可检天象记录进行检验,并力图考证出错误记录的原貌。在介绍该计划要点、为此专门编制的计算机软件之后,分析天象记录产生流传错误的特征以及天象检验对史学研究的作用。
Most of China's historical astronomical records have been saved in the Twenty-Five Histories.As a part of the "Revision Project of the Twenty-Five Histories",we shall check all astronomical records which can be calculated by modern astronomical methods,and try to find the original situation behind the mistaken records.Here we provide a brief introduction to the main points of our plan,the computer software which we developed specially for the plan,some typical types of mistakes in the old records and the relationship to historical research.