A Report On The Translation Of Chinese History Articles By James Legge

The materials of this practice report are Legge’s lecture notes on the Sinology of Chinese language and characters,including Ancient Chinese Civilization as indicated by the Characters and the history and History of Chinese Philology and its Present State,in Transactions of the Philological Society.These two articles mainly introduce the rules of Chinese character formation and the methods of Chinese character structure.In his lecture notes,James Legge gave examples of 12 types of original Chinese characters.He described how these characters are formed,and through the analysis of the composition of these Chinese characters,he summarized the life and social situation of Chinese ancestors.This text belongs to the information type text,which involves a lot of philology proper nouns and professional knowledge,and needs to accurately and fully convey the original information.The materials of the practice report are Legge’s lecture notes on the Sinology of Chinese language and characters,including The Concise Khang-Hsi Dictionary,Ancient Chinese Civilization as indicated by the Characters and Dr.Chalmers’ Structure of Chinese Characters.The Concise Khang-Hsi Dictionary is an abridged version of Kang-Hsi dictionary compiled by British missionary Dr.Chalmers in 1877.This paper summarizes the phonology and spelling introduced by Dr.Chalmers,especially the most distinctive phonology in the book,including ancient,Orthodox,southern and Northern systems.Ancient Chinese Civilization as indicated by the Characters mainly introduces the rules of Chinese character formation and the methods of Chinese character structure.In his lecture notes,James Legge gives examples of 12 types of original Chinese characters,describes how these characters are formed,and summarizes the life and social situation of Chinese ancestors through the analysis of the formation of these Chinese characters.Dr.Chalmers’ Structure of Chinese Characters mainly talks about the origin of Chinese characters and the analysis of Chinese characters,and points out that if you want to really understand and learn Chinese characters,you need a character list,and also mentions the contribution of Chinese characters to human civilization.