| The word of warring states may divide into following 5 series according to region: Qi, Yan, Jin, Chu and Qin. Chu dynasty is one of the biggest countries of warring states period, his writing intension is also considerable and extensive. Besides include Wu, Yue, Xu, Cai, Song, etc.abroad, include river Han and the Huaihe river little country that spread all over the place under water also Chu culture. This cultural circle regarded the state of Chu as the centre, there were important positions in the warring states period .So, it is very important to study the Chu characters.Since the foundation of the state, in Hubei , Hunan , Henan, three province unearthed 20 odd bamboo slip, have raised the climax of studying the Chu charaters in the academia. Publication of Chu—Dynasty slips of warring states collected by Shanghai Museum cause the sensation again.The bamboo slip edition relatively early, it is the state of Chu that move to Ying funerary objects, noble of tomb, it is early to belong to the warring states; the quantity is huge, there are more than 1200, more than 35000 words in all; abundant in content, there are more than 80 kinds , involve such every field as literature, history, politics, religion, philosophy, military affairs, etc. there is extremely high academic value。At present, this batch of bamboo slips that the Shanghai Museum of art and history collects are being published successively, four volumes are being published already. Chu— Dynasty slips of warring states collects by Shanghai Museum(vol.3) has four articles altogether .successively ZhouYi(周易), ZhongGong(仲弓), HengXian(æ’å…ˆ), PengZu(å½ç¥–). ZhongYi(周易),have simple No. 58 branch altogether ,1806 words, is the biggest articles in three slips bamboo, and is the oldest and the ancient edition of all Yijing. ZhongGong (仲 弓) ,No. 28 Branch is simple, 506words. By the form of questioning ,Kongzi praised hisapprentice__ZhongGong who is one of the ethical apprentices. All article is the language ofWeizheng ( 为政) and Shijun (事å›) . HengXian( æ’å…ˆ ),has simple No. 13 branch altogerher ,510 words. Its version is alike Zhouyi , studying the XuJing theory of Daojia , putting forward the original problem of TianDi , its finding is going to becoming the important materials of Daojia theory. PengZu(å½ç¥–) simple No. 8 Branch have altogether, 295words. Pengzu is also the lost book of Daojia in the warring states . these branches show the legend that there is Pengzu in the warring states.This text put Chu—Dynasty slips of warring states collects by shanghai museum (vol.3) in order into a dictionary, each word in this book is include in the layout, and arrange according to the order of ShuoWenJieZi (说文解å—).the top of page is the modern literary style of the XiaoZhuan(å°ç¯†) script, secondly it is the XiaoZhuan script, if ShuoWenJieZi inside as word, regard modern sign of this word as by the first word then different words of the same form of meaning are listed and listed separately, mark under the script of the XiaoZhuan; in the appendix that the word not known and incomplete word are shown behind, can judge through the context and remaining part, and unanimous and generally acknowledged word of experts and scholars, place on the dictionary text, indicate for the incomplete word. The above is a subject of this text, in addition, this text has also down the summary to the existing research results from plait of bamboo strips, studying philosophy thought, the meaning of special sign in Zhouyi, time and age of serving JiShi Zai, the linguistics thought of Hengxian, geography region, the releases to read of text etc. enclosing... |