A Study On The Inscriptions Of Eastern Han Dynasty

Official script, known as Han Li, plays an important role between Qin Li and Regular script. It is in the end of the Libian period. There are more than200pieces of the Eastern Han Dynasty tablet rubbings remaining,w hich are the largest number of the Han Li writing materials currently found.A nd they are characterized by various variant characters, ancient and modem words mixed. Lishi written by Hong Kuo, the Southern Song Dynasty,i s the first monograph that is collected the Han and Wei stone inscriptions. This book has very high value in philology. It records the inscriptions and the postscripts in the every tablet according to the original ones. In particular,it provides important clues to explain the inscriptions correctly and explore the evolution of the writing for us. Lishi collects183pieces of tablet. Among others,140pieces of the original tablets including rubbings hasn't existed so we can know them only through this book.This paper focuses on a closed research on the Eastern Han Dynasty inscriptions which are mainly collected in Lishi.H owever,i n order to maximize and more accurate use of them, the picking writing standards are:Firstly, picking the inscriptions on the rubbings or copies if the tablets collecting in Lishi have ones. Secondly, as a result of the existing Lishi isn't the original one,it has so many mistakes that can't be the powerful evidence. Libian is the main extra material if the tablets haven't rubbings or copies existed. Thirdly, expand the range of the picking writings appropriately,including the Wei, Jin Dynasty tablets collected in Lishi, volume.19, and the Cao Quan not collected by Lishi.The basic research steps in this paper are:Step1, according the above standards, pick and classify the clear writings with dispute on the rubbings and copies as the comparison sources, and use them to make a The Eastern Han Dynasty Variants General Table.S tep2, a contrast research on writing.C ompare the Variants with each other, and compare them with ancient writing materials or the character form in Shuowen.Cl assify the sources and the evolution of the writing, and explore their law of the Inheritance and Variation. Step3, a textual research on writing.W e can not only have a textual research on the difficult writing in the tablets and also have an adjustment to the referring literature's note according to the disciplinary cognitions on writing and combining others research achievements.This paper has5chapters,a nd focuses on the second, third,fourth chapter.The main contents as follow:Chapter1:1ntroduction. Brief introductions to the Eastern Han Dynasty tablets and Lishi; The research value in philology of Lishi and the research status; Research object and research purposes; The sources of material and the standard of selecting writing; Research thoughts and research methods.Chapter2:The ancient script factor in the inscriptions of Eastern Han Dynasty.O n the basis of their characteristics and patterns, they can be divided into2categories:First, Li Gu Ding script,w hich is transferred from Han Li or Regular script writing. The Li Gu Ding source among the inscriptions is very complicated. W e can divide them into many categories, ideopictograph, the Warring States script,A ncient official script, Shuowen etc.S econd, the components of Ancient script,t hat is the Li Gu Ding components, Seal script components, half-Seal half-Official script components and so on, which are transferred from Ancient scripts or the parts of them.Chapter3:The general evolution cases of the inscriptions in Eastern Han Dynasty. This chapter fully integrates the examples of Bei Li.C ompare the synchronic and diachronic writing. W hen discussing the evolution of Bei Li separately,t ake into account that there are five cases, simplification, complication, components composition or variation, component transfer and generalization. Simplification includes simplify semantic symbol, simplify phonetic symbol, simplify the same components and simplify outline etc.C omplication mainly includes2types:Add strokes. Add components. The former is most related to the writing structure; the latter is most related to the sound and the meaning of writings. The causes of components composition or variation are the need to square the outline of Han Li, and the need to adjust the high-frequency components to primary components etc. There are3types of components transfer:the shape,t he sound,t he meaning. The main characteristic is that select the similar writing in aspects of shape,s ound and meaning.A nd it has a strong analogy. A ccording to the character of effect factors, generalization can be divided into2types:The dominant generalization, the recessive generalization.Chapter4:The theory discussion on the evolution of the inscriptions in Eastern Han Dynasty. Firstly, summarize the general characteristics of evolution;and then attempt to discuss the destruction, retention, reconstruction of characters feature during Li Bian from a distinct characteristic perspective.Chapter5:The research on the inscriptions of Eastern Han Dynasty inscriptions and the tablets literature classification. We can take a huge advantage of inscriptions research to interpret the difficult words, explain the writing,c assify the inscriptions literature,and correct dictionaries etc.T his part makes use of the disciplinary cognitions obtained by the former research to not only have a textual research on more than30difficult words in tablets, but also have an adjustment and supplement to more than20notes in Complete Works of Inscriptions in Han Dynasty and Collation and Annotation of Inscriptions in Han, Wei, Six Dynasties.Appendix parts:Three aspects are included. Appendix1:The Variants of Eastern Han Dynasty Inscriptions General Table, which collects about3000different Han Li in the Eastern Tablets; Appendix2:The Eastern Han Dynasty Li Gu Ding Script Components distribution Table,w hich collects212Li Gu Ding components and Seal character components; Appendix3:The inscriptive writings of stone tablets in Lishi General Table,, which organizes the basic information concerning the183pieces of the Eastern Han, Wei,J in Dynasties tablet in Lishi.In this paper,it's the first time to having a comprehensive research on the Eastern Han Dynasty inscriptions in different times. Put the inscriptions in Lishi into the research, which breaks the limitations of using the existing rubbings as the research materials. We can know more about them because of the scope of research's expansion. Moreover, we can acquire the basic information concerning their Inheritance and Variation through the specific analysis of the inscriptions and their evolutions. Meanwhile, we can extract disciplinary cognitions to fill the blank in relevant fields, and lay the foundation of further research.