The Linguistics Value Of Baihuajiangzhang In Yuan Dynasty

The Baihuajiangzhang refers to the colloquial language explanations of Confucianism classics or the vernacular translations of Chinese written ancient books. As an exegesis of ancient texts works, Yuan Dynasty's Baihuajiangzhang achievably preserves an enormous amount of modern Chinese glossaries and grammatical features, and its existence obviously values greatly towards the linguistics research.In order to focus on the linguistics value of Baihuajiangzhang, this article is divided into three parts:The first part is the outline of Baihuajiangzhang, which not only narrates its historical origins, but also relates its social background:The Baihuajiangzhang can be derived from the very similar origins with Collected sayings literary style and considered as the successor of Song Confucian's collected sayings in terms of the lecture authors, lecture contents, even lecture languages. The initial period of Yuan Dynasty's Baihuajiangzhang mainly depends on the official study and Jingyan system, and sustains by presentations for the emperor and his noble ministers. It gradually and significantly expands with appreciation of development of printings.The second part uncovers the significant merit of Baihuajiangzhang in Chinese history research. This part starts from the language character of Baihuajiangzhang, particularly in aspect to its glossaries and grammars, while simultaneously promulgating its value in Chinese history research:Its language features not only demonstrate assistances in discussion of words and expressions diplophonia rules and revelation the evolution path of Chinese common used words, but also reveal the grammatical features variations under the specified language context. This revelation of active and dispensational language development helps us to understand Yuan Dynasty's socialist system, population migration as well as the national fusion and so on.As this article's key point, the third part is focused on the exegetical studies'value of Baihuajiangzhang, and this value mainly manifests to the writing style development and function enhancement of exegetical studies. In views of the Confucianism classics, Baihuajiangzhang, embarking from its education object, author's specialized skills and social environment, improves traditional exegetical studies writing styles into new characteristics:it's less in the adduction textual research and explication, but more on concise and straight; it mixes numerous elements, presenting mixes and the potential. The enhancement of exegetical studies functions of jiangzhang mainly manifest in three aspects:abundance and breadth of context; brevity and clarity of expression; nonliterality and perspicuity of significance.