The Record Of Folk Custom's Research

The Record of Folk Custom is a slang dictionaries monograph in Qing Dynasty, and made a significant contribution in the preservation and record of folk vocabulary. It is not only provide valuable corpus for the linguistic study, but also as the reference to studay the ancient times Name property and Political system, and provide valuable academic information for the research of the political system, of history, culture and even the origins of art, have certain academic value.This paper focuses on The Record of Folk Custom's vocabulary as research object, in order to reveal folk custom's style and features that goes behind at that time reflected by folk vocabulary designed from the perspective of folk linguistics, and learning from the perspective of compiling dictionaries of their future generations Dictionary Compilation value and impact.This paper studies the vocabularies in the book as deep and completely as possible. It is divided into six chapters:The fiest chapter is exordium, introducing the accordance of the topic, The Record of Folk Custom's research value, the foergone research achievements, and research methods of this article. The second chapter introduces the auther and the book, including Gu Zhangsi's life, The Record of Folk Custom's background, version and its contents.The third chapter discusses The Record of Folk Custom's compiling features. The fourth chapter assorts The Record of Folk Custom's folk vocabulary, from the perspective of folk linguistics goes behind it to reveal the social folk style. The fifth chapter probes The Record of Folk Custom's value, primarily inspects some of the Great Dictionary of Chinese Vocabulary's problems, such as late proofs, proofs spanning too big, omission of terms, to contribute to the big Chinese dictionaries'editing and revising. And then investigates other aspects' value. The sixth chapter chiefly froms interpretation, citing documented and the category of words to investigate The Record of Folk Custom's shortcomings.