Textual Reaserch On The Words And Expressions Of "Zhanjiashan Hanjian"

Some Bamboo Slips of Han Dynasty were excavated in a Han tomb numbered 247 in ZhangJiaShan of Jianglin County, Hubei Province in1983. Zhang- Jia-Shan -Han-Mu- Zhu-Jian (No.247) was publicated by Cultural Relics Publishing House in 2001. These bamboo slips were published successively that being included "Maishu ", "Yin shu", "Zou yan shu ", "He lu", "Er nian lv ling", Qian ce,Li pu and so on, 1236 in total ( no contain the incomplete slips). The academic circles paid attention to these materials and research result springs up unceasingly since the bamboo slips were unearthed. We choose the words and expressions in Zhang Jia Shan Han Jian as object of study in this thesis, and explain their meanings.This thesis contains three chapters and an appendix as follows.Zhang Jia Shan HanJian's excavation, interpretation, research status and the value of this thesis are mainly introduced in the first part. The measures practiced in this thesis are also mentioned in this chapter.This second chapter is the main body of the thesis. It is composed of guide notes and main body of the dictionary. On the base of the published annotations and research results, we check and proofread the annotations carefully against the original pictures of the bamboo slips in order to the reliability of study material. Then we sort out these annotations and make an index by Guan Shen data base, inquire into the context and meaning of every character, consult the dictionary and ancient documents, and explain the whole expressions in Zhang Jia Shan Han Jian. There are 1806 single-syllable words and 1475 poly-syllable words and expressions.The third chapter is composed of two parts. One part is "the study of Zhang Jia Shan Hanjian words and phrases and the compilation of Chinese dictionary ", supplement the phases, item and advance some documentary evidence. One the other hand, we compare the characters' usage and meaning to the ancient documents in the contemporary period, research the same examples.However, owing to my limited time and capability, there are still some words and expressions waiting for research. The appendix contains unknown words and expressions as well as the words and expressions with single example. For convenience of reference, the index of word is added. Some mistakes in the original annotations are pointed out in this part. The thesis has 3 characteristics: Firstly, the study materials are valuable. The thesis is based on the rechecking of the text and the reference of the recent 20 years research, it guarantees the thesis owns the first hand research material. Secondly, the study is comprehensive. With the basis of check and research on the text of Zhang Jia Shan Hanjian, we investigate almost words and expressions in the text for the first time. At the same time, some difficult phases are studied and the source of meaning is also traced. Thirdly, the proper methods are adopted. During the study, we paid much attention to the material itself as well as the compare between the examples in Zhang Jia Shan Hanjian and in the contemporary ancient books. Furthermore, the database techniques are applied in the thesis which provides much convenience to research and guarantees the validity of the statistics and searching.