The Research On Characters Of The Radical Of Jin Of Shuowenjiezi From The Angle Of Culture

ShuoWenJieZi wrote by Xu Shen is the earliest dictionary in China, which is arranged by the radical, analyzing the graphemic and wordsource systematically. The radicals of Chinese character have contained the rich social content, therefore studying the characters of each radical of ShuoWenJieZi, could search the corresponding ancient civilization path. This paper take the radical of jin of ShuoWenJieZi as the object of study, and made every effort to be able to make the corresponding deep research to the metal culture of our country's ancient times.This paper is divided into four parts: perface, structure of the radical of jin, the occurrence, development and evolution of the radical of jin, ancient civilization reflected in the radical of jin. In the perface, introduce the outline of the radical of jin, clarify the object of study, summarize the situation of present research. The second part combs and analyzes the structure of the radical of jin . It has one ideograph, 195 phonetic compounds, and mainly inspected the structure of phonetic compounds, the meaningful part and in the phonetic component position as well as the shape symbol and the phonetic notation cultural factor. The third part, has discussed the occurrence , development and evolution of the radical of jin. The fourth part, inspected the relations of the radical of jin and the ancient civilization, and discuss the rich ancient civilization which is reflected in the radical of jin.The radical of jin, accumulated the sincere ancient civilization, is an important part in Chinese writing history. The discussion and the research on it will offer some ordinary introductory remarks so that others may find a few valuable ideas for the research on the philology as well as the cultural science of Chinese characters.