The Study Of Written Times Of The Handed Down Documents And The Unearthed Documents In Yizhoushu(three Articles)based On Lexical History

Yizhoushu is the one of the important books in the pre-Qin Dynasty of ancient China,which has enormous value of research.Many scholars are mainly concerned with this book from words explanation,historical research,origin and documentary problems.There are certain research results on the issue of the written times of YiZhouShu.At present,the academia field believes that the written time of this book is no later than the Warring States Period.However,as a documentary compilation,Yizhoushu is in substantial contents.It is not written by one person and is not formatted in one moment.As for the specific studies of the written times of each sections and chapters in the book,there are relatively few achievements.Most scholars study this issue from the aspects of history and ideology.As for studying this issue from the aspect of lexical history,most researches discuss only a few words rather than most words which spread whole sections and chapters.Therefore,the persuasiveness of the conclusion is slightly inadequate.In recent decades,the contents of the ancient books of the pre-Qin Period have been discovered one after another in unearthed bamboo slips.Especially three articles named huangmen,zhaigongzhiguming,ruiliangfubi of Tsinghua bamboo slips were unearthed,which are also in Yizhoushu.The study of Yizhoushu has ushered in new opportunities.This paper studies three articles both in Tsinghua bamboo and Yizhoushu from the aspect of lexical history.In order to deeply studies vocabulary features of the three articles,we use double evidence method and pay attention to comparison of various versions.At the same time,we judge the first time of the meanings of the words by checking ancient books,searching electronic corpus,collecting the words usage in the unearthed documents and the handed-down literature and analyzing historical meanings.On the basis of these procedures,we arrange distribution of the first time of the meanings of the words of every article to evaluate the written times of huangmen,zhaigong,ruiliangfu.The main three parts of this paper is as follows:The first part is the introduction,briefly describing the basic situation of Yizhoushu,introducing the research status and the significance of the topic,explaining the research methods and ideas of this article and explaining the relevant issues in the process of demonstrating its written times.The second part is the chapter two to chapter four,which is the main part of this paper.This part mainly studies the words and their meanings in the handed down documents and unearthed documents of huangmen zhaigong ruiliangfu first appeared in the Western Zhou Dynasty and Eastern Zhou Dynasty.Then,we individually make the distribution tables of the first time words in every article and analyze the proportion of each period.At last,we evaluate the written times of huangmen,zhaigong,ruiliangfu based on the lexical history and previous opinions.The third part is conclusion,which mainly summarizes conclusions and methods.Through this paper,we draw the conclusion: the written time of the handed down documents and unearthed documents of huangmen should be in Western Zhou Dynasty,Eastern Zhou Dynasty has some increase.The written time of the handed down documents and unearthed documents of zhaigong should be in Western Zhou Dynasty,Eastern Zhou Dynasty has some increase.Compared with handed down documents,the unearthed documents of zhaigong retains its original appearance in Western Zhou Dynasty.The written time of the handed down documents and unearthed documents of ruiliangfu should be in Western Zhou Dynasty,Eastern Zhou Dynasty has more increase.Otherwise,this part dialectically explains the advantages and disadvantages in evaluating the written times of ancient books from the perspective of lexical history and the tips we should pay more attention to during the process of evaluating.The appendix is two tables.Appendix I mainly arranges the historical meanings of the words in the handed down documents and unearthed documents of huangmen,zhaigong,ruiliangfu.Appendix II is the related information of the bronze inscriptions cited in this paper.