Study On The Folk Characters Xu Xuan Noted In Shuo Wen Jie Zi

When Xu xuan was revising Xu shen's Shuo Wen Jie Zi, he complymented some materials, and differentiated some folk character from formal ones . He pointed out 146 folk characters in the form of"the character was writing or reading as…in the folk". These folk characters should have been there before Song Dynasty, and arised during the stage of Chinese characters'Li Bian and Kai Hua. So we can have a good understanding on the Chinese characters'regularity of simplification and standardization .Nowadays ,the research to Xu shen and Duan yu cai's folk characters that appears Shuo Wen Jie Zi was almost all-around and systemic. But is not enough to the folk character that Xu xuan noted. In order to perfect this research ,we did a comprehensive study on Xu xuan folk characters than the former scholars.From the view of simultaneity and diachronic ,we study Xu xuan folk character with the methods of comparison and statistics.This paper have five parts: the first one is the introduction, its content is the reason that we choose this topic and the researching state on this field. The second part is about the form of those fold character that Xu xuan noted . the third and fourth part is about the change that Xu xuan folk characters happened during the latter day and modern times. This study will help us understand the regularity and significance of simplification, standardization of the folk characters ,and also we can do a further research on the basis.