Research On Economic Vocabulary In Yizhoushu

As a historical document of Zhou dynasty,Yizhoushu contains a lot of rich contents.It not only contains a lot of thoughts on governance of Zhou people,but also retains a lot of precious corpus,which provideas sufficient materials to show the social conditions of western Zhou dynasty and the appearance of ancient Chinese vocabulary.This paper in order to escape Yizhoushu economic class vocabulary as the research object,carries on the comprehensive statistical interpretation and classification,explore its structural characteristics and internal laws,analysis their economic problems,in terms of aims to reveal the basic characteristics of the industry word and the development situation of the industry and then this can provide some reference material for Yizhoushu vocabulary research,ancient Chinese vocabulary research and ancient economic history research.There are 370 economic words in Yizhoushu,which are divided into four categories: husbandry,handicraft,commerce and national finance according to the internal composition and semantic aggregation of the industry.Among them,there were 126 handicraft words,accounting for 34.05%.There were only 30 commerce words,accounting for 8.11%.To some extent,this reflects the prosperity and development of handicraft at that time.From the perspective of the distribution of articles,it is mainly concentrated in the 27 articles such as Wanghuijie,Dajujie,Zhifangjie and Wenchuanjie.Among them,Wanghuijie has the largest number of economic words,with 79.In this paper,370 words are paraphrased in detail,which mainly reflect the vocabulary of Shang and Zhou dynasties.Such as: engrave,qinglu,xuanyue,wujun,shanfang,zbai,travel.These words are mainly distributed in Dakuangjie(11),Keyinjie,Dajujie and Wanghuijie.The characteristics of the structure are as follows: The number of monosyllabic words is the larges,accounting for 56.49%;polyphonic words are the fewest,mainly by compound words,accounting for 88.82% of polyphonic words.There are 18 single-morpheme words,including binding words,reduplicated words,and transliterated words.There are 143 compound words,including coordination,modifier-center,verb-object and subject-predicate.The number of modifier-center compound words is the largest,with 100.Such as gemu,timber,tingmu,tongniu,meiniu,qiuniu as so on.there are three-syllable words in modifier-center compound words,such as tianzhi jade,inseparable king bird,zbai cow.In the economic vocabulary of Yizhoushu,there are 298 univocal words,accounting for 80.54%.In terms of syllable structure,polyphonic words are more common in univocal words,accounting for 53.02% of univocal words.There are more monosyllabic words in polysemants,accounting for 95.83% of polysemants.It reflects the stability of the lexical meaning of polyphonic words and the polysemy and flexibility of the lexical meaning of monosyllabic words.In terms of the usage of word meaning,univocal words are mostly used in their original meaning;polysemants are many both with the original meaning and extended meaning.These words can be extended in the form of the chain type,the radiation type and the synthesis type.Among them,the chain type is the most,accounting for57.33%.There are many economic phenomena reflected in Yizhoushu,among which the problems of commerce and famine are the most typical.Its policies encourage the development of commerce,and provide a lot of convenience for the development of commerce,such as the establishment of expediently exchange "bazaar" "frontier market" and the price control officials "wujun";To secure the interests of the merchant.In the currency circulation,the implementation of the "make ’mother’ coin and ’child’ coin" measures.In the case of famine relief,there is the question of "money lending".When borrowing,by the "Xiangzheng is to protect the loan",and advocate "not to repay in the year of harves","to supplement the reproduction of wealth",until the wealth has enough,then call in a loan.The above measures are consistent with the literature of the Warring states period,such as "Guanzi" and "Zhouli",which provides a basis for determining the writing time of the item in which the measures are taken.Therefore,the Dakuangjie(11)solution was written no earlier than the middle of the Warring states period.