"dead Child" Study

Shijiao, a scholar in the Warring States, was born in Jin, who had assisted ShangYang with the political reform. Then ShangYang failed his reform and was condemned to death. At the same time, ShiJiao left for Shu, where he finished his work ShiZi.From the end of Han Dynasty, the content of the book ShiZi had lost little by little until the end of Song Dynasty, when the book completely disappeared. Now it was only left about twenty percent. But so many woks and scholars in the history had referred to it that we need pay much attention to its value.In the history, many scholars had collected, emended, annotated and studied the book from the angles of its truth, its thought characteristic and literature characteristic etc. The best collection edition is WangJipei's Collection of ShiZi in Qing Dynasty. Now there are still some arguments about ShiZi that havn't been resolved. ShiZi not only relates to social science such as politics, philosophy, linguistics and natural science like chronometer, geography, medicine etc. but also compasses a large amount of XunGu(训诂), which stands for the achievements in XunGuXue(训诂学) of pre-Qin Dynasty. What's more, the content of ShiZi is colorful, restoring plenty of important historical materials. But there is little research about that. So this thesis emphasizes researches on the XunGuXue value and the documentary value of ShiZi, in order to establish its academic position.The thesis has four parts. The first part introduces ShiJiao, the author of ShiZi. ShiJiao was a scholar in Jin of the Warring States, who assisted ShangYang with his political reform. He mainly lived in the 4th century A.D.The second part is related to the edition and spread of ShiZi. At first ShiZi was composed of twenty chapters with about 60000characters. It was prevalent in Han Dynasty. Then lost about seventy percent content at the end of Song Dynasty. Hitherto, the best edition is WangJipei's collection.The third part studies the XunGuxue value of ShiZi from the aspects of XunGu form,...