「岳母刺字」，正史裡找不到
《宋史》只记岳飞背上有「尽忠报国」四字，没说是谁刺的；「岳母刺字」要到清初才出现。
History records Yue Fei’s tattoo — not his mother
「岳母刺字」幾乎人人聽過，但正史裡沒有岳母的身影。《宋史·岳飛傳》只記岳飛下獄受審時，「裂裳以背示鑄，有『盡忠報國』四大字，深入膚理」——是「盡忠」，不是後來流行的「精忠」，也沒說是誰刺的。明代小說與戲曲裡，一說是岳飛自己刺的，一說是部將張憲；到了清初戲曲與《說岳全傳》，才變成母親一針一針刺上。甚至《宋史》這一段，也有學者如王曾瑜認為出自後人，早期岳家文獻未見。傳說未必是史實，卻說出了人們心中的岳飛。你心裡的版本是哪一個？
Everyone knows the scene: Yue Fei’s mother tattooing four characters on his back. The official History of Song never mentions her. It says only that under interrogation Yue Fei tore open his robe to show 盡忠報國, ‘utmost loyalty to the country’, cut deep into the skin — not the later 精忠, and with no word on who did it. Ming fiction had him do it himself, or his officer Zhang Xian; only early-Qing plays and the novel Shuo Yue made it his mother. Some historians, like Wang Zengyu, doubt even the Song History passage. Which version do you carry?
《宋史》原文可查，其可靠性則有爭議；「岳母刺字」出自後世小說與戲曲。
The Song History line is real text, but its reliability is debated; the mother’s needle comes from later fiction.