A Study Of Popular Characters In "Documents Of Poyang Lake District"

"Poyang Lake District Documents" are a batch of contracts and litigation documents unearthed from fishing villages in Poyang Lake District,Jiangxi Province.They contain more than 1,500 pages of various documents.The collected documents run through more than 400 years from the middle of the Ming Dynasty to the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China.They are unique in content and rich in variety.This is the first time the lake area documents have been discovered and sorted out on a large scale after the field soil documents and mountain forest documents.It has extremely high academic value for studying the fishermen's life and fishery economy in the lake area.The "Poyang Lake District Documents" are all hand-written by local fishermen,which can reflect the use of local characters very well,and is a very precious research text of popular characters.However,the current academic research on "Poyang Lake District Documents" is mainly focused on history,economics and other disciplines,and the research on the text itself has not yet begun.This article uses this as a starting point to collect and sort out the common characters appearing in the document,and analyzes and discusses its types,characteristics in order to make up for the gaps in the research of common characters in the "Poyang Lake Document".Combined with Zhang Yongquan's classification of popular characters in "Study on Popular Characters in Chinese",according to the type characteristics of popular characters in "Poyang Lake District Documents",they can be roughly divided into predigestion,complex,component replacement,component displacement,classification,continuous writing,coalescence,new creation and other eight categories.The common characters of predigestion mainly include the simplify of unimportant strokes or parts,the use of predigestion symbols to replace them,the merging of the same parts,and the simple meaning of ideograms or vowels;the common types of popular characters include the addition of strokes or parts,Adding meaning symbols,etc.;the replacement of components is mainly focused on changing the meaning symbols or vowels;the displacement of components refers to the change of the upper and lower left and right structure of the glyph;the classification includes the classification affected by the context,the classification affected by the subconscious,and There are three cases of internalization of glyphs;even pens have the same strokes between the same strokes,and there are also two strokes between different strokes.Of course,even the strokes can be regarded as a simple type of glyph.The above types include most of the common words in the "Poyang Lake District Documents".By sorting and collating the common characters in "Poyang Lake District Documents",we can find that they have the characteristics of popularity,inheritance and analogy.The study of common characters in "Poyang Lake District Documents" is of great value to the compilation of dictionaries,the study of folk documents,and the study of Chinese philology.