Shanghai Museum Bamboo Slips "book Of Changes" Variant

The book of changes which is copied on the bamboo slips of Chu in the Warring States period now is collected in Shanghai Museum and transcribed in the late Warring States period. Since published in the year of 2003, it has been called a "world-shaking" important event. It is the earliest edition we have known, more important, it is used as the few Unearthed Documents of the Warring States period which can check against with the ancient book as the cultural heritage. It can provide us the important reference to solve the problems of the Graphology, Phonology, Exegetical Study and Collation. It also has the extensive research value of Linguistics, Graphology, Collation and Yi-ology.This text is mainly divided into four parts. Introduction part briefly tells us the gathering and researching condition of The book of changes variant characters before finding The book of changes copied on the bamboo slips, then introduces the present condition of the research as the point and expound the research method of this text.Chapter 1 tells us the meaning of the variant characters, and according to the principle of the science of Chinese Characters formation, make the provision of the recognized principle of the variant characters of The book of changes copied on the bamboo slips. After differentiating the name of Jinwen and Guwen in Han Dynasty, it discusses the kind of The book of changes copied on the bamboo slips.Chapter 2 divides the type of the variant characters of The book of changes copied on the bamboo slips into graphology, lexical and collation, on the basis of checking against the variant characters of The book of changes copied on the bamboo slips with The book of changes passed through generations, and gives examples and analysis of each variant character.Chapter 3 analyzes five reasons of the formation of the variant characters of The book of changes copied on the bamboo slips and briefly tells us its important language value of cultural heritage.