A Research On Words Of Taiping Jing

Taiping Jing is the first book of Chinese Taoism, whose preaching object isthe rough scuff. In order for the convenience of airring doxy, Taiping Jing waswritten in an interlocutory way. So there are many colloquial words in the bookwhich can reflect the genuine lingual visage better. Therefore, Taiping Jing is aprecious philological material for researching the Chinese language in DonghanDynasty.This dissertation takes the vocabulary of Taiping Jing as research object,which is a study of special works in the history of middle-ancient Chinesevocabulary. It consists of eight chapters. The dissertation explains some words ofTaiping Jing in the history of middle-ancient Chinese, and lays stress on thespecial words and meanings in Taiping Jing.Chapter one is an introduction. After reviewing the history of study onTa(?)ist scriptures' language, it explores the writing process and the author ofTa(?)ping Jing, and then reviews the current situation about the research of TaipingJing. After that, we discuss the reasons and methods of the study in the thesis, thedifferences between disyllabic and polysyllabic words and phrases.Chapter two is"The importance for words research of Taiping Jing". Thecharacteristics of linguistics materials in Taiping Jing are analyzed based on foursides which are times, spoken language words, culture and specialty. And oneconclusion is induced that Taiping Jing is a precious trustable philologicalmaterial for the study of middle ancient Chinese language. So that we know thethought and content of Taiping Jing better, and this is good for understanding thelanguage of Taiping Jing. Furthermore, the importance for words research ofTaiping Jing is analyzed in detail.Chapter three is"The research on the oral words in Taiping Jing". Some ofthem are firstly used in Taiping Jing and continue to be used later. Some are fromformer literature. Some are from the spoken language at that time and can bediscovered in other contemporary literature.Chapter four is"The research on the Taoist words in Taiping Jing". TheTaoist words are a concept in broad sense.The Taoist words include eight sideswhich are the god of sky and earth, magic symbol and prophecy, magic andincantation,immo rtality and fairy, blessing and help, scripture and bamboo slips,five elements and astrology, system and things. These words are the mostcharacteristic words in Taiping Jing, the early scripture of Chinese Taoism.Chapter five,"The research on new words and new meanings in TaipingJing", firstly discusses how to judge new words and new meanings, and theninvestigates new words and new meanings in Taiping Jing in the history of theChinese vocabulary.Chapter six, Research on the high-frequence words. Sectionâ… is the selection of high-frequency words in spoken language which are diachronic substitution.Sectionâ…¡is to trace the origin of some high-frequency words in modern Chinesewhich originate in Taiping Jing.Chapter seven is the discussion about the annotation of Taiping Jing. Itconsists of two parts. Sectionâ… corrects the mistakes in the explanations of sometranslation books. Sectionâ…¡is the discussion about the misplace punctuation insome translation books or some scholars' articles.Chapter eight explains and distinguishes dozens of words and expressionswhich are difficult to understand in Taiping Jing. Some of them are not included inChinese dictionaries, some are explained mistakenly, some can supplement otherscholars' opinions.