Cultural Interpretation Of The Words Of "Shuowen Jiezi" And "Er Ya" Sacrificial

“That all the laws of Chinese characters are manifested in the Xiaozhuan body is the final stage of the transformation that drawing characters were becoming bone inscriptions and bronze inscriptions. It not sums up all the laws and development trend of Chinese characters but also embodies the whole spirit of the Chinese characters structure.” Shuowen Jiezi of Xu Shen has collected 9353 Xiaozhuan characters and creatively classified them by their radicals. The book analyzed the Chinese words by their character pattern and literal meanings and make the later generations recognize Xiaozhuan. It is also a key to identified the earlier ancient text glyphs. Shuowen is not only a book about words, but also a valuable ancient cultural heritage, which reflects the ideology, political, economic and cultural life of ancient Chinese people.Known as a pioneer of the exegesis, Erh Ya included more than 4300 words and 2091 entries, and was organized according to the their meanings. Erh Ya is the father of Chinese dictionary covering a wide range of integrated content. During Wen emperor of Tang Dynasty, Erh Ya was included by the Confucian Classics. However, Erh Ya is not a classic or dependency of the classic. It’s an independent dictionary and people can use it to read classics, understand classics and know the ancestor’s life and the social life in our ancient time.In this paper, I take Shuowen and Erh Ya as research objects and it will be divided in five sections: The first section is the introduction which introduces the relation between sacrificial words and ritual sacrifices culture. Then I will elaborate realistic significance of sacrificial words and ritual sacrifices culture and the research status in this field. At last, I will illustrate the research methods that were primarily used in this paper. The second section is a collection of sacrificial words in Shuowen and Erh Ya. In the study of Shuowen, I will take the examples of’s Shuowen Tong Xun Ding Sheng·Shuo Ya of Zhu Jun sheng to regulate and conclude sacrificial words. On the other hand, in the study of Erh Ya, I combine Commentary of Erh Ya with Revision and notes of Erh Ya to select the sacrifice words and classify them into the same group according to Erh Ya.The third section is a classification of sacrificial words in Shuowen and Erh Ya.It is divided into nine parts. Referencing other ancient books and records, I will explain the meaning of sacrificial words through their cultural connotations one by one. The forth section is the cultural interpretation of the sacrificial word in Shuowen and Erh Ya.In the perspective of history, I will explain development of the sacrifice words and embodied the primitive religion of human behavior. I will also state people’s ideological characteristic which were reflected by the sacrificial words in Shuowen and Erh Ya in sacrifice actions.The last section is conclusion which summarizes the whole paper, including the origins, peculiarity and the social significance of sacrifice actions, and I will also explain the purpose of my research.