| Changsha Zoumalou Wujian it is known as bamboo slip scripts which were excavated in Hunan province Changsha City 1996. Those scripts were from Three Kingdoms in the year of East Han Xian Empire Jianan 25 (A.D 220) to Sun Wu Jia He 6 (A.D 237). It is said that these bamboo slip scripts are very valuable information for the study of character and literature in Chinese language.There are lots of researches of these bamboo slips have been taken by some academician since excavated, however most of the study are based on the historical area. This dissertation will study on the language point, it will present the analysis of 646 single character of these bamboo slips, based on the former research, the numbers of data will be given in order to describe those characters.The references of this dissertation are from two copies: (1999) and (2003). The available materials which can be studied are 2255 slips, 24, 793 characters in total, single characters are 646, and variant characters are 387 groups.This dissertation includes three chapters and appendixFirst chapter outline the research and discovery of bamboo slip scripts since twenty century. Second chapter profile the characters shape of Zoumalou Wujian. Third chapter focuses in the variant form, analyzes the configuration pattern of the bamboo slip script writing in two different sides: separate form separate function and separate writing separate form.Appendix includes total character numbers, original shape characters, single characters, combine characters, figure characters, designation characters, meaning characters, vocal characters, vocal symbol, figure symbol and "Shuowenjiezi", "Yupian" 3,500 characters.Furthermore this dissertation will introduce some methods such as statistics and comparative analysis to explain the style of every character in the bamboo slip and the reason how they shaped. |
