Collation And Reserch Of Dunhuang Cursive Manuscripts

In 1900,the scripture cave in Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes was opened,and a large number of ancient manuscripts,prints,art works and other cultural relics were re published;Among the nearly 50000 Chinese documents unearthed,There are nearly200 cursive notebooks(including fragments).Most of the Dunhuang cursive scripts belong to listening records and essays,which are the interpretation and annotation of Buddhist classics by ancient eminent monks.There are also some transcripts and learning notes of Buddhist scriptures.Most of the scripts used in writing the volumes are modern cursive,and some of them have a strong charm of Zhang Cao.Due to historical reasons,these are the same as other Dunhuang remains Cursive manuscripts are collected in China and around the world.China mainly includes: National Library of China,National Palace Museum,Shanghai Museum,Shanghai Library,Tianjin Art Museum,Peking University Library,Nanjing Museum,Liaoning Museum,Dunhuang Museum,Zhejiang Museum,China Cultural Heritage Research Institute,relevant institutions in Taiwan,and individual private collections.Foreign countries mainly include: British National Library,French National Library,Hermitage Museum in St.Petersburg,Russia,public and private collection institutions in Japan,etc.Dunhuang cursive script can be divided into two categories according to its writing content: one is the interpretation of Buddhist classics,and the other is public and private documents.According to the writing content and source,the interpretation of Buddhist classics can be divided into two categories: classics,theories,laws and miscellaneous copies;According to the source,it can be divided into listening to scriptures and writing scriptures.Public and private documents can be subdivided into public documents: ultimatum and imperial edict;Private documents include letters,medical books,literary books,cursive calligraphy and calligraphy.In addition to individual public and private documents,the previous research results on Dunhuang cursive manuscripts are mainly the interpretation of more than a dozen Buddhist sutras by Japanese scholars.Like other Dunhuang manuscripts,Dunhuang cursive manuscripts scattered all over the world are mostly fragments.Some writing techniques are between running script and cursive script,and some are not strictly from Dunhuang Scripture cave.This paper expounds the Dunhuang cursive script one by one from the aspects of collection,external form(collection place,size,preservation status),content,writing age,description and research.The collection,external form,content,writing age,description and research of Dunhuang cursive manuscripts are different,especially most of them have no name,and some of them are inaccurate.The identification and textual research of Dunhuang cursive script is the basic work of Dunhuang relic cursive script research;Most cursive manuscripts are isolated,and there are no handed down documents to learn from.Compared with Dunhuang manuscripts in other books,interpretation is more difficult,and previous research results are relatively rare.Therefore,the research on the collation of Dunhuang cursive manuscripts is actually in the pioneering stage in the whole field of Dunhuang research.Dunhuang cursive script reflects the traditional Chinese character cursive script in the art of calligraphy,which has writing skills,but also has obvious local characteristics and the law of evolution of the times.Especially as first-hand raw materials.Dunhuang cursive script embodies important philological value,Buddhist history value,social history research value,linguistic value,philology value and calligraphy art value.It is a precious traditional cultural heritage of the Chinese nation.