The Study On "the New Added Characters" Of Origin Of Chinese Characters In "Shuo Wen Jie Zi"

Origin of Chinese characters is the earliest dictionary by Xu Shen of the Eastern han dynast."The new added characters "of origin of Chinese characters are the characters added to the end of each volume of the main body of origin of Chinese characters.About the "new added characters ".there is submit at the end of the book. It said "there are characters which have not been taken notes in 'origin of Chinese characters ' ".They are characters for classical works which have been passed on from generation to generation and characters for routines .Followed the instruction ,they are added to widen the way of six ancient categories of Chinese characters.Even though the new added characters are not a part of the main body of origin of Chinese characters ,it had been handed down from ancient times ,if we can recognize its nature and ascertain its history standing ,it is of value to the study of philology.There are little material have been kept about the "new added characters ", so we can have to overall look at it.Qing dynasty is a period at the height of the written explanation study .It is also at the height of the study of origin of Chinese characters.What the Qing men had done was:To make clear the nature of "new added characters ". To talk about the source of the "new added characters "and to give textual exegesia and textual research for the "new added characters ".Modern men Huang Kan written a book the origin of the new added characters which have been recognized by Huang Zhuo. This has put the textual research of "new added characters " at a new height.In a word ,what the precessorshad did was to do textual exegesis and textual research and they scored successes. But what the defect is : it have not been guided by scientifical philology and lexicolgy ;It have not been studied systematical and generally.This article is the one on the basis of our forefathers study .It takes new method and terminology trying hard to depict appropriately the "new added characters ",so that the modern men can clearly recognize it.