A Study Of Exegesis In

Bi Ya is a book to explain the meaning of similar words. Its author is a famous scholar named Hong Liangji in the Qing Dynasty. The author’s purpose is to write the explanation of the similar words together in order to browse and understand. Bi Ya inherited the tradition of Er Ya basically as mimicry of Er Ya. The titles reflect the meaning categories of the words directly. However, Bi Ya is different from Er Ya in the subject of the book. Its purpose is to compare the similarities and differences between words. Bi Ya plays an indispensable role in the history of Ya Xue due to its unique content. It is not really an excellent work although it had made its special contribution in the academic. It is not final manuscript. The authors died before judging and arranging them. There are some deficiencies in Bi Ya, for example, in the arrangement style, the choice of words and the references of literature. These are really regrets of Ya Xue. Therefore, comprehensive and detailed study about Bi Ya has great significance. This article will take Bi Ya as the research object,exploring its exegetical contents,summarizing its exegetical methods and its exegetical features and deeply studying its academic value and insufficiency. Putting the similar words together to explain in terms of exegesis is the biggest characteristic of Bi Ya. Therefore this article will explore its exegetical content and summarize its exegetical methods and features taking this as an entry point. This article will also study its academic value and shortcomings and analyze the reasons rationally in order to providing some reference for the study of Chinese exegetics. This paper roughly as follows:The first part is the arrangement styles of Bi Ya. Bi Ya inherited the tradition of Er Ya. The titles reflect the meaning categories of the words directly. However, Bi Ya has a lot of innovations and breakthroughs in terms of compiling styles. The differences between Bi Ya and Er Ya include three aspects, for example, increasing the defined classes, changing the titles and adjusting the sequence. It increased the number of words which Er Ya not incorporated. Bi Ya and Er Ya are different in order. This initiative not only greatly expanded the capacity but also makes some scattered words can be recorded. It can reflect the historical background and academic currents of thought of that era. This article will carefully comb on these three areas.The second part is the terms of Bi Ya. The terms of Bi Ya are very extensive. There are three main manifestations. First of all, the relationship between terms iscomplicated including synonyms and antonyms. Followed by the part of speech is rich and more concentrated. Nouns, verbs and adjectives had the largest share. Additionally, the format of the text is very regular. The format essentially consists of headwords, interpretation, the source and the introductory note. Although they are not all taste everything, but they are basically the same. These rich terms gives us a lot of valuable information.The third part is the exegetical ways of Bi Ya. The main way of exegesis is Yi Xun. In this paper, it is divided into two areas. On the one hand, it explains words with synonyms. Most terms of Bi Ya are about comparing synonyms. On the other hand it explains words with the antonyms. Frequency of the antonym appear in Bi Ya is relatively small. But it is also a unique way to explain the terms of Bi Ya. Meaning is the core content on translation studies. Translation needs meaning to explain some words. Therefore the development of exegesis is indispensable without Yi Xun. However, it also has some limitations, for example, sometimes the interpretation is not enough popular and specific. Sometimes on the surface to explain the meaning, but the reader still do not understand its meaning.The fourth part is the exegetical terminology. Most terms are used to explain the meaning of the words and very small number of terms is used to mark the pronunciation. Very small number of used phonetic notation.Some terminology is commonly used, and the format is fixed. These formed its unique terminological systems. Interpretation terms of the number are a lot and their format is fixed. This article will explain the fully collect these terminology in order to explore the exegetical characteristics which Bi Ya hidden in. After in-depth analysis we can find that they are more stringent distinguish from other disciplines terms. This shows that the terminology of Bi Ya is more scientific and standardized. It also reflects that the development of exegetics already quite mature in the Qing Dynasty.The last part is the exegetical value and deficiencies of Bi Ya. Bi Ya fills the blank books about Ya Xue. The explained content is rich, and the interpretation methods are comprehensive. This book has a reference to study other exegetics works. It can extend the study of exegesis while broadening the way of thinking about exegetics research. The academic value of Bi Ya is mainly manifested in the following aspects: It listed out all the different interpretations. Its information is very comprehensive. The methods of the different interpretations are flexible and diversified. It contains the explanation of some ancient items. Meanwhile, Bi Ya alsohas some shortcomings, such as, the unbalanced overall structure, some unclear interpretation of the words, some superstitious ideological content and some blurred cited references, etc.This paper is a more detailed study of exegetical contents and exegetical ways and exegesis terms of Bi Ya. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the exegesis value and its shortcomings of Bi Ya. However, due to limited personal capacity, some problems such as the style and the note and the collation, etc.were not researched thorough enough. These issues need to be further explored.