Vocabulary Study Of The Chinese Social Documents Of The Yuan Dynasty From Khara-Khoto Collected In China

The social documents of the Yuan dynasty from Khara-Khoto collected in China are unearthed documents with the nature of "simultaneous materials",reliable in time,clear in region,and authentic in material;they are both popular,colloquial,and heterogeneous,providing a new corpus for the study of Yuan dynasty vocabulary,and have important linguistic value.This paper takes the vocabulary in the social documents of Chinese literature in Khara-Khoto,Tibet,China as the object of study,combines the study of vocabulary with the examination of the historical background of the Yuan Dynasty,and explores the lexical landscape of the Yuan Dynasty as reflected in the social documents of Chinese literature in Khara-Khoto,Tibet,China,in the context of political canonical system,economic and cultural life,etc.The article is divided into five parts.The introductory part gives a brief overview of the Chinese literature of Khara-Khoto in China,systematically composes the relevant research results in the field of documentary proofreading,vulgar characters,vocabulary and grammar.Then we clarify the main contents and methods of our study,and introduce the important value of the vocabulary study of Khara-Khoto Chinese social documents in terms of the study of Yuan dynasty vocabulary,the collation and proofreading of the documents themselves,and the compilation of dictionaries.The second chapter systematically studies the characteristic vocabulary in social documents.It is mainly divided into the terms of official programs and the terms of private documents,and the terms of official programs are specifically divided into three categories,namely,the nouns of documents,the words of hierarchical structure and the words of programs,in an attempt to clarify the inner hierarchy of Yuan dynasty documents and to understand the process of downward,parallel and upward transmission of Yuan dynasty documents among different institutions,which helps us to further interpret the documents accurately.The third chapter explores the new words and meanings in social documents.First,the criteria for determining new words and new meanings are clarified,and new words and new meanings in the Chinese social documents of Khara-Khoto in Tibet are screened as scientifically as possible with the help of many documentary resources,such as heirloom documents,Dunhuang manuscript,tool books and corpus.On this basis,we analyze how new words are produced and how new meanings are derived and developed in the instruments,and further examine the causes of new words and new meanings and the characteristics they exhibit.The fourth chapter,under the premise of an overall grasp of the vocabulary of the instrument,supplements the words,meanings and book evidence not included in the Chinese Dictionary,with a view to providing assistance to the compilation of the dictionary.