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Dunhuang Manuscripts "book Of" Variant Study

Posted on:2007-07-16Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:N ChenFull Text:PDF
GTID:2205360185461136Subject:Ancient Chinese literature
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Shangshu was written by the history officer in the ancient, which is a glorious cultural treasure on Chinese history. It contains about 1,600 years of the ancient ages from the Xia Dynasty to the Zhou Dynasty, crossing the whole slave's society of China. However, the dunhuang written Shangshu was transcribed mainly in the Wei and Jin Dynasty to the Sui Tang Dynasty, which was covered in the mountain holes for thousands of years, and has not yet been distorted. They are not only keeping the real condition of those years, but also show the changes of characters of these days. However, it has great value in the studying of the changes of Chinese characters from Wei and Jin Dynasty to nowadays.The academic circles began to pay attention to the phenomenon of the different character forms in the dunhuang written Shangshu text as early as the beginning of the last century, Such as Mr Wang Guowei, Mr Jiang Liangfu and Mr Wu Fuxi. So the people in the old days have gotten great progress in collecting the different character forms between the two kinds of Shangshu texts, but they had not studied all aspects of them. Therefore, we should do our best continue to work hard in this area.In this text , I check the dunhuang written Shangshu text against nowadays Shangshu text word by word, In order to collect all the different character forms between them, and also try to divide the different character forms into three types. And I also analysis the representative individual cases, in order to find the regulation behind the differences.In the ancient period, Chinese experienced a stage using a word to present another word just because they had the same pronunciations. Which was an importance marking of a kind of direction that the characters developed toward the symbols representing elements of sound. But I found that the most of the new characters in the nowadays Shangshu are the characters that can present the sound and the meaning of a word. This condition can tells us why Chinese characters hadn't changed into the symbols representing elements of sound. There are also many tongjia characters and characters written different from the traditional characters in the written book. I think just because of writing quickly, they wrote the characters more simpler than the traditional charactors.I also want to find the evaluate of both the text of Dunhuang written shangshu and the text spread nowadays by the linguistic methods. The main research method in my article is contrasting the characters in the Dunhuang written shangshu text with the text that spreads nowadays word by word, collecting all the different character forms, and comparing these two editions. However I also used other methods when I wrote the article, such as using the forms, contrasting, and analysis.
Keywords/Search Tags:Shangshu, nowadays text, Dunhuang written text, different character form
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