The Study Of Xian-Fu About Chu Bamboo Slips Collected By Shanghai Museum

Xian-Fu is widely existed in all stages of the evolution and development of ancient Chinese characters, especially in the Chu-Dynasty Bamboo slips of Warring States, Xian-Fu is more prevalent, not only appears in large quantities, but also in more frequency; and the varieties have been increased. However, in a very long historical period, the researchers believe that every stroke and side of Chinese characters is directly or indirectly involved with the sound and meaning noted by every character, so many words' configuration has often been distorted or mistaken, such as the word "示". In the past, the study related to Xian-fu initiated at the latest time, although the recent research has made some achievements, the theory of Xian-Fu still lags behind; not only the diversity of definition, such as decorated stroke, superfluous stroke, Xian paintings, decorative symbols, Xian-Fu and so on, but also on its nature and the object of study, they haven't come to an agreement and haven't effective standards on the classification of Xian-Fu.Since 2001, Shanghai Museum have collated and published a series of "Shanghai Museum bamboo book" from 1 to 7. As is rich in content, the bamboo slips is great of value, so its publication brought another boom for the study of Chu characters. With the study gradually deepened, the researchers have resolved a lot of problems existed in ancient character or the ancient literature and so on. In particular, given the earlier release of the "Shanghai Museum bamboo book"(1～5), the relevant dictionary has also been published, which have made an outstanding achievement on the interpretation of the font, so as to provide valuable materials and favorable conditions for further research on the Xian-Fu. In this paper, based on the forefathers' results, and integrated with other known ancient character materials, such as oracle bone inscriptions, bronze inscriptions, the Warring States text, especially the Chu text of Warring States, we will put an emphasis on the Chu-Dynasty Bamboo slips of Warring States collected by Shanghai Museum, and do collate and research into the Xian-Fu in it.The dissertation is consisted of seven parts. We will set forth the important ideas as follows:Firstly, the preamble, we will have a detailed introduction about the object, the significance, methods of the study of Xian-Fu and other relevant problems.ChapterⅠ, the summarization on research, we hackle the previous research results of Xian-Fu carefully, and give a brief comment on each viewpoint. On the whole, it has demonstrated the overall history and current situation of the study of the Xian-Fu.ChapterⅡ, the definition of Xian-Fu, the related name of Xian-Fu is abnormally various. Based on the analysis of the nature and object and other related issues, we re-defined the term of "Xian Fu" and discusses the reasons why we select the "Xian Fu" from the numerous choice.ChapterⅢ, the function and its arisen cause, investigated from different angles, the "Xian Fu" has decorative function, zero function and negative function. First of all, we put a detailed analysis and explanation on the situation of different hands, who transcribed the Shanghai Museum bamboo book may use different Xian-Fu, on which basis, we make a correlative analysis on the arisen cause of Xian-Fu. The Xian-Fu should be a complex phenomenon of characters prevalent in hand-written customs body, especially in the Warring States, when have no orthographic to constraint, is particularly frequent. In modern standard Chinese characters, there is no strict Xian-Fu in sense.ChapterⅣ, according to different standards, we will make a classification for the Xian-Fu. In this paper, firstly, from a historical perspective, we will divide it into historic and synchronic. The Xian-Fu can not be considered as the historic one in the strict sense, while the synchronic one will be the important object in the dissertation. Besides, this article also divide it into Xian-side and Xian-stroke two major categories from the external form of the Xian-Fu, which is the previous classification criteria; and according to their location, as for those more frequent emergence of Xian-stroke, we also make a small division. Finally, in view of the external morphology of the Xian-Fu, we put Shanghai Museum bamboo (1～5) into a detailed breakdown, and defined the prevalent Xian-Fu and its common distribution.ChapterⅤ, identified the suspected Xian-Fu, we mainly analyze the more complex nature of some characters, and identify some constituent Xian-Fu. In the related analysis, we will pay enough attention to the geographical factors and the transcriber factors of the characters during the Warring States period in particular.ChapterⅥ, the role of the Xian-Fu in ancient characters interpretation, integrated with theillustration of characters analysis, we try to account for the role of the Xian-Fu of textual research, and further affirm the significance of the study of the Xian-Fu.Appendix One: In accordance with the relevant theory of the body, we make a list of the Xian-Fu appeared in Shanghai Museum bamboo (1～5) after analyzing. As for the article and frequency in which the Xian-Fu appeared, we make a statistics in detail in order to have a more clearly understanding about the situation of Xian-Fu's use and other related issues.