Research On Bamboo Slips Of Wu Kingdom In The Three Kingdoms Era

The paper is a system arrangement and research for the characters which have been released by the groups who are in the charge of arranging bamboo slips of Wu period unearthed in Changsha, Hunan.Bamboo Slips of Wu Kingdom, appearing in the pase-future period of the history of the development of the Chinese characters, is the typical representative. Bamboo makes clerical script develop into formal script gradually so that the formal script can get tremendous development. The shape of Chinese characters changed a lot, seal script, clerical script, cursive script, semi-cursive script and formal script coexist, the structures of characters were adjusted a lot, especially the nonstandard forms of characters and the different forms of a character, which represent thetypical link of the development of the Medieval Chinese characters.The paper has a comprehensive study on Bamboo Slips of Wu Kingdom from the pure literature. On the basis of The Collection of Characters from Changsha Zuomalou Bamboo Slips of Wu Kingdom in the Three Kingdoms Era, the paper is written and it consists of body and appendix. The body includes eight chapters.The first chapter tells the particularity and significance of Bamboo Slips of Wu Kingdom and the research on it in the field. In this part, it summarizes the content of the research and the interrelated research status, point out the theoretical basis of the research, work out the methods of thinking, and reveal the actual significance.The second chapter investigates the usage situation of the Bamboo Slips of Wu Kingdom from the quantity of the characters, the frequency of usage, general service words, vice-general service words, universal characters and rarely-used Chinese characters.The third chapter studies Bamboo Slips of Wu Kingdom from the statistics of types, the ways of forming and the structure types of new words and describes the dynamic changement of it totally.The fourth chapter studies Bamboo Slips of Wu Kingdom from its historical inheriting and spreading, teases out origins of the form and structure of its ancient characters, researches its historical use and spreading situation.The fifth chapter investigates the change of the parts of Bamboo Slips of Wu Kingdom from its simplification, complication, erroneous transformation, mixed, apperception, mix together, the tendency from semi-cursive script and cursive script to formal script, translocation and replacement and offers an in-depth analysis on the change rules of Chinese characters’parts in the development period of clerical script and formal script.The sixth chapter researches the strokes of Bamboo Slips of Wu Kingdom from a microscopic point of view and reveals the basic features and the change situation of Bamboo Slips of Wu Kingdom from the forms, combinations and orders of strokes.The seventh character shows the evolutional rules of Bamboo Slips of Wu Kingdom’s variant forms of the same character and variant constitutions of the same character from variant forms’ characters, variant constitutions’ characters and the relation between the both.The eighth chapter studies the unknown characters in Bamboo Slips of Wu Kingdom. It investigates and explains some ancient characters in Bamboo Slips of Wu Kingdom, meanwhile, also studies some popular but wrong characters.Appendix is a useful complement to the body.Appendix Ⅰ is a general table recording the characters’ usage situation of Bamboo Slips of Wu Kingdom.Appendix Ⅱ is a new table to explain new characters for "Jia He Li Min Tian Jia Bie".Appendix Ⅲ is a new table for to explain new characters for "Bamboo Slips (Ⅰ)".Appendix Ⅴ is a new table for to explain new characters for "Bamboo Slips Ⅲ)".Appendix Ⅵ is a new table for to explain new characters for "Bamboo Slips Ⅴ)". Appendix Ⅳ is a new table for to explain new characters for "Bamboo Slips(Ⅱ)".