"original" Research

The Original is the posthumous writing of Sun Yirang, who was the famous philologist of the last part of Qing Dynasty, he summarized the classical Chinese accomplishment from two aspects of theory and practice. The aim of writing Original was discussing the initial appearance of classical Chinese, that is making a Comparation between inscription on oracle bones, inscription on ancient bronze vessels inscription on stone drum and so on, and Xiao Zhuan, classical Chinese, Zhou Wen which was collected by Shuo Wen Jie Zi, summarized classical Chinese character development and evolution rules, gained the original appearance of classical Chinese character.Original . Narrates Records is the theoritical principal of the whole book, comprehensively elaborated Sun Yirang's view of characters. The three section of Original separately elaborated production and evolution of digital,the pictographic character ,the last four section not only discussed mutually explanatory Chinese characters character characteristic, but also investigated and explained the massive classical Chinese literatures and rare character, supplemented and corrected improper place of Shuowen .The classical Chinese literature big small seal script evolution table according to the character radical order of Shuowen, has included the inscription on oracle bones,the inscription on ancient bronze vessels word by word and so on, each kind of classical Chinese literature glyph, what a pity already it is lost. This article's clue is the content of Original, in the form of Original Classical Chinese literature Big Small seal script Evolution Simple list, roughly reappear this table's main appearance, borrows this to analyze how Sun Yirang to utilize the historical evolution law, investigate and explain the method and achievement of classical Chinese character. The biggest contribution of Original in philology is reflecting Sun Yirang's scientific method of investigating and explaining classical Chinese character. He has inherited the predecessor's research results, has abandoned the bad habit which is subjectively speculated, used the way of exegesis of ancient texts to investigate philology, inherited the main method of investigating and explaining physique comparison, the construction character part analysis, the historical evolution, the question has asked for righteousness and so on, simultaneously attempted to utilizes asking for character from sound, cross-national writing contrast, made the methods of investing and explaining classical Chinese character more precisely, the result was more objective.In addition, the theoritical discussion of Original which carried on the classical Chinese character also was advanced at that time, Sun Yirang although has not summarized the modern significant system theory, but he has quite scientifically elaborated the origin of Chinese character and the development and evolution of Chinese character, affects profoundly to the later generation.