A Study Of The Vacabulary Of Late Joseon Dynasty Chinese Textbooks

The Chinese textbooks of the late Joseon dynasty are just the same as those in early Joseon dynasty such as "Lao Qi Da",in which book those practical speaking textbooks were written for the purpose of communication between Chinese and Korean.These books record the true face of northern Chinese. Not only were some words that had already disappeared in modern Chinese recorded, but also formed a long time chain with the previous textbooks, and this time chain showed exactly how Chinese was transforming from ancient Chinese to modern Chinese. In this period many qualitative words changed after a long period of time. You can say these books reflect origin of modern Chinese, so the study is significant."the Sequel of Chinese Textbooks of the Joseon Dynasty" is edited by wangweihui and so on, in this book, they do punctuation and word proof, and provide us with clearer corpus.The first part of this paper is introduction. The introduction includes three parts: reasons for choosing the topic and corpus profiles, research situation and value about my paper, and research methods. The instructions of the Chinese textbooks of late Joseon dynasty^ the reseaches of the previous scholars、the direction of the paper is to further the study in details.The second part of this paper is making textual criticisms and explanations to difficult words, dialect and proverbs. This part is divided into two sections,the first section explains 17 words,anther section including 4 words that need to further study.The third part is the study of two groups of common words. This part studies "zhu/kuaiz" "Xing/zou" in the Chinese textbooks of late Joseon dynasty in details from different angles, "zhu/kuaizi" is based on previous studies and to give some supplement to the lack of previous studies, and through the number of usage statistics of "kuaizi"(筷子) and "kuaizi"(快子) in the literatures of same period, we get a conclusion that "kuaizf’(快子) in Chinese textbooks of late Joseon dynasty is right and it is not wrote wrong; In the group of "xing/zou",the paper mainly observes the number of "Xing" and "zow" to describe the latest replacement in history of the two words and the reason on it.The fourth part is the conclusion. It summarizes the main conclusions of this paper.Through study of this paper, many difficult words’problem in the Chinese textbooks of late Joseon dynasty are resolved, which is significant for interpretation, and for which research of two groups of commonly used words makes us to get a better glimpse of some facts of Chinese history.