Textual Research On Yu Yule's Er SHAN LU

SHUO WEN JIE ZI (shortened as SHUO WEN in the following part) composed by Xu Shen in East Dynasty is the first dictionary in China, which inquired into the meaning of Chinese characters through their shapes and told the differences of pronunciation among the characters. Since its accomplishments, most scholars have researched much of which content later, especially in Qing Dynasty, the research on SHUO WEN was in top form. The research on SHUO WEN is concerning different scopes: one of them is the meaning's explanation of the characters, just like ER SHAN LU .Yu Yue chose 96 characters from SHUO WEN and expressed his new views, which were different from Xu Shen's. This book made contributions to the research on SHUO WEN in Qing Dynasty.Many scholars paid much attention to Yu Yue's accomplishments on study of Confucian classics, while few people concentrated on this book of his. Up to now no person has studied this work. As a linguist, Yu Yue devoted himself to studying the characters in ancient books. My intention, in this thesis, on the basis of the former researchers, through specially analyzing the involved characters in ER SHAN LU, to probe into both the advantages and disadvantages of ER SHAN LU, to bring forth Yu Yue's view about Chinese character, and to hope to pay some efforts for the research of SHUO WEN in Qing Dynasty, especially to make some efforts for the comprehensive evaluation of Yu Yue's achievements.At first this book being read carefully, all concerning data are collected. Then the knowledge from ancient character and phonology is employed to induce and evaluate Yu Yue's views in the book correctly as much as possible.This thesis consists of three parts:Part One is commenting on the characters in the book. Yu Yue didn't agree with Xu Shen and put forward his new views. On the basis of detailed data, that what he said is right or wrong has been mentioned in the thesis. Part Two is concluding all the characters. All the characters in the book are divided into four groups: to remark the original meaning of the characters, to find the original shape, to testify the two characters with the same meaning or not, and others. At the same time, the reason why he got right points of view has been found. That is his finding the right shape; his attitude to the characters is systematically. And he . was familiar with the characters, which were used in ancient books. The reason why he made mistakes lies in his conventionality of thoughts, which forced him far away from the right way. He put his stress on Zhuan script. However the zhuan script, which he used as...