The Study Of Words Of Losing Ancient Books In Chu Bamboo Slips (1～5) Collected By Shanghai Museum

May in 1994, there were a large number of Bamboo Slips of the Warring States Period emerged on the Hong Kong Heritage market, which was heard by The Shanghai Museum, and eventually they were determined to buy the more than 1200 pieces of the acquisition at first. Between the autumn and winter of the same year, some friends from Hong Kong presented the Shanghai Museum with 497 pieces again. These includes over a hundred kinds of ancient books, Some chapters of which could be compared with what handed down , but most of which are the Losing books of pre-Qin, so these pieces were called "Shanghai Museum bamboo slips of Warring States Chu". Since December in 2001, the Shanghai Museum has published seven volumes. In this paper, we will have a research on the words, which is recorded in the Losing Ancient books in the Shanghai Museum Bamboo Books of Warring States Chu (1 ~ 5).The Bamboo is the earliest books we have seen, and it have the real handwriting of that time, what?s more, the words recorded in which could reflected the prevailing language usage, so the bamboo gives us not only a material treasure, but also the precious ancient culture inhentance of the Chinese history.The discovery and publication of the Chu bamboo slips provide rich materials for us to study history, culture and ideas of the Warring States period, consequently setting off a climax in the research of Chu character and culture. The Losing ancient books are these not seen in the masterpieces of literature, or the dissipated books. So the research on the words of Losing Ancient Books will be delighted and defiant for the modern people. According the efforts of many years, the research on Chu bamboo books has yielded excellent results. A number of words have been explained, and the ideas of the bamboo slips have also been clear. But some of difficult questions which are divergent need to be carded and researched exhaustively.Exact meaning of some common words is not definite,they are discussed furtherly.And the explanation and interpretation articles of scholars are scattered among the associated books, so far which haven?t been summanized systematicly the meaning of words in the Losing books of Chu Bamboo Slips(1~5) collected by Shanghai Museum, and the harvest in which haven?t been used by the majority of reader accurately ande easily. Therefore, based on the interpretation of scholars, we will make a systemic integration in order to present the full face of the words in the Losing ancient books of Chu Bamboo Slips (1 ~ 5) for academic use.This article is titled "The Study of Words of Losing Ancient books in Chu Bamboo slips (1~5) collected by Shanghai Museum " which is divided into three parts: the first is the "preface"; the second part is the "body" of the thesis ; the third part is the"appendix".The"preface"includes two parts. The first part is described: the background of the discussion, the basis and objectives of the topics, the materials used and the description of the methods. The second part is what the Losing ancient books of Chu Bamboo Books emendate and replenish"Chinese Dictionary"with examples. For the research on any unearthed documents, they have some restrictions on by themselves, so it must be compared with the literature which handed down, in order to be confirmed and supplemented. Conversely, the study of the unearthed literature can also supplement the descendent masterpiece. The Shanghai Museum bamboo slips of Warring States Chu is the precious corpus, which have not been tampered by the generations, most words of which can corroborate with that of the descendent books, but there are some not appeared in the descendent books. In the process of Carding and researching on the Losing ancient books of Chu Bamboo Books, we will contrast the items with the entries of"Chinese Dictionary", received: some terms contained in the Losing ancient books,not only prove the interpretation in"Chinese Dictionary",but also provide some new meaning which is not in historical records.And add new meaning for existing words in"Chinese Dictionary".Even if revise the existing words comprehensively. And while some definition of the terms in the Losing ancient books can advance the era of documentary evidence.As a main part, the "body" is about a research on the words? phrase and meaning. Based on the discussions and studies of the fore man, we will make an effort to collect the correlative articles, clear up some views in order to address the point of view on some controversial words in textual research, identify the non - turn on the meaning in order to interpret the sense of words and sentences, Even if there are some meaning of items we don?t clear, we will cite paper the mainstream of academic discussion as far as possible examples in order to index and learn for the later learners.The words entry in this paper, sort the entry of the words just as the article of "Shuowen Jiezi". According to the character, we will interpret the terms of the bamboo slips. The main content expressed as follows: the total number of the words appeared in chapters; the pronunciation marked the words; enumerate the phrases and its? number; interpretation of the word; cited the speech. In this way, not only it enable readers to understand the words and sense of the Losing ancient books in Chu Bamboo Books, but also be able to understand the usage of a character, voice problem and also.For convenience of reader ,we make the Stroke Keys of the word.The appendix includes a little experiences in the process of my conducting and studying.