Study On Sacrificial Words In ZhouLi

The sacrifice is a sort of activity which is thought to be eliminate disaster through matter offering for god and ancestor. The sacrificial words is a general designation which describes all of words directly relate to sacrificial activity. There are many of sacrificial active records in ZhouLi. description of these sacrificial activities built up lots of sacrificial words.(sacrificial object, sacrificial offering, sacrificial naming, sacrificial container are only picked in this paper).Through systematic study on these sacrificial words in ZhouLi, We can know some aspect features and outline approximately about Chinese vocabulary in the periods of Zhou and Qin dynasty. And we can also spy on then social culture. The paper cleaned up the four sorts of sacrificial words completely and altogether 285. And the partial sacrificial words carry on the analysis in ZhouLi, make partial exploring the origin of sacrificial words in ZhouLi. We hope that the work we have did can take some reasoning material for the establishment and perfecting Chinese vocabulary history.The paper mainly composed of the following several parts:The preface discussed five issues:1.the purpose and task of the study. 2.The basic theory in the study is three phrase theory of words origin and development proposed by Wang ning. We adopted the method in which meaning arrives from sound,comparative method and literary history wise system transfixion method and so on. 3. choice of language material and according edition. The language material of this paper come from the book of ZhouLi .The edition is Publishing house of China, which pressed in 1987,named Zhou LiZhengYi . 4.The history value of sacrificial words in ZhouLi .We hunting the spring of some sacrificial words which can come into being and the origin of naming. The work provided with important theoretics and science value for enrichment and perfect of Chinese vocabulary history, even for establishment of derivation. And it can also help us know Chinese tradition culture to some certain extent. 5. ZhouLi and its notes. As to the time when ZhouLi was compiled ,based on various versions, the writer believes that it was compiled in the period of ChunQiu era, and there are three notes about it. These are Zheng Xuan's ZhouLiZhu, Jia Gongyan's ZhouLiZhuShu, and SunYi rang's ZhouLiZhengYi.The first chapter, the determination and signification sorts of sacrificial words in ZhouLi:1,the way to certify sacrificial words in ZhouLi. The sacrificial word is a general name which is directly correlative with sacrificial activities. The standard of judging sacrificial words is the relationship with the sacrificial activities.2,the signification sorts of sacrificial words in ZhouLi《周礼》.We selected sacrificial object, sacrificial offering , sacrificial naming, sacrificial container as our study objects. And...