Shuo Wen Jie Zi And Ancient Military

Shuowen Jiezi (说文解字) written by Xu Shen in Donghan Dynasty is the first dictionary in Chinese nationality which analyzes the character pattern ,explain the word s meaning and recognizes the sound .It is immortal exegetics monngraph work .The paper chooses the words whose original meaning directly reflect ancient military and interpret and analyze these words. Firstly, classifies the words in Shuo wen Jiezi into four kinds: Weapons and equipment, Armament appearance, Military system, Military construction, Military moves. Scendly, the paper analyses the words about military from the angel of the exegetics ,but also anslyses and evaluates words that Xushen interpreted. And on the basis of explanation of the form and meaning of the Chinese characters,the paper interprets military knowledge.Finally,the paper simply evaluates the Shuowen Jiezi and ancient military knowledge.