The Study Of Simplication On Oracle-bone Inscriptions

Simplification is an important phenomenon on the development history of Chinese characters. It is accompanied with Chinese characters had been created and, even today, we can see this phenomenon on original material——Oracle-Bone Inscriptions. Simplification of Oracle-Bone Inscriptions is significant for the simplification of characters after Oracle-Bone Inscriptions. Therefore, the simplified Oracle-Bone Inscriptions is worthy of study. This paper try to make up for《the new Oracle-Bone Inscriptions》of sources, find out 157 characters which have a typical feature of the word simplified as the principle of Oracle-Bone Inscription with a relatively late in the early , and generalize the simplified method of classification,——it has five types——and take many examples to explain every kind, and finally summarize the disciplines of the phenomenon of simplifications on Oracle-Bone Inscriptions.In Oracle-Bone Inscriptions time, simplification has been the trend of so many reasons. First of all, it is adapted to simplify of the applications demand, because the social and tools ask for convenient and quick to write Chinese characters; Second, Oracle-Bone Inscriptions itself has necessary conditions for a simplified Chinese characters ;Third, special tools and writing style——writting on Oracle-Bone is very hard, also brought Oracle-Bone Inscriptions a simplified form. These three reasons above pushed Oracle-Bone Inscriptions to simplify.Through the streamlining of rules and research of Oracle-Bone Inscriptions simplification, we know that simplified Oracle-Bone Inscriptions is very common, and the simplified method is among the existing standard Chinese characters. It also has very good examples for today, and the simplified toferraris problem is a more direct role. So many facts prove that the existing norms of the simplified Chinese characters and ways of simplifying Oracle-Bone Inscriptions have a lot in common;By the study of simplification phenomenon of Oracle-Bone Inscriptions ,we can get that the overwhelming majority of Chinese characters have their reasons of word-formation, and is rational to follow, and the so-called " complicated " phenomenon in fact is more a kind of " differentiation ".