Studies On The Military--Verbs In Inscriptions On The Bronze Wares Of Zhou Dynasty

The study on the language inscripted on bones-and-tortoise shells of the Shang Dynasty and on the bronze wares of the Zhou Dynasty is a vulnerable spot in the study of the Chinese Philology. With the efforts of many experts and my senior fellow apprentices, they have made much progress in the vocabulary study on the inscriptions on the bones and tortoise shells of the Shang Dynasty. But few person attached importance to the study on the inscriptions on the bronze wares of the Zhou Dynasty, especially, the vocabulary study. The inscriptions on the bronze wares of the Zhou Dynasty are simultaneous materials, and they are true and abundant. They ought to be first-hand datum if we should study the language and culture of the Zhou Dynasty. It is necessary of the vocabulary study of the inscriptions on the bronze wares of the Zhou Dynasty to form the ancient vocabulary system, what' s more, to form the whole Chinese vocabulary system. Paper is based on the inscriptions on the bronze wares of the Zhou Dynasty. The military-verbs are put in order. And the classifying, the meaning, the history stratum, the time division, the origin , the grammar , the thinking and the culture of the military-verbs ,and the bearing , the culmination , the decay , the continue of the new words are explored in the paper . Author also wants to display the overall characteristics of these words, and hopes it can be of value to the compiling the history of Chinese vocabulary.