Summary of "Shuowen Radical Notes"
This book strives to combine the writing and interpretation of radicals in order to meet the requirements of readers. Accordingly, the seal script radicals in this book are all in the author's handwriting, and the selected radicals' seal script glyphs are all based on "Shuowen Jiezi". Even if the writing method of individual radicals is controversial in later generations, it will be written according to it, but it will be explained in the text annotation part. These radicals are the basic units that constitute the shape of Xiaozhuan characters. If readers can carefully understand and master them proficiently, they will not only be of great help to deeply understand the value of "Shuowen Jiezi" and understand the formation rules of Chinese characters, but also be of great help in reading and studying seal scripts. Seal script will also be of great benefit.
About the author of "Shuowen Radical Book Notes"
Zhao Hong, also known as Hongzhi, is a Ph.D. and his supervisor is Professor Ouyang Zhongshi. He is currently an associate professor at the Adult Education College of Capital Normal University, a member of the Chinese Calligraphers Association, deputy director of the Seal Engraving Committee of the Beijing Calligraphers Association, and a director of the Beijing Non-Party Senior Intellectuals Association. He has published papers such as "A Textual Research on Miao Seal Script", "On Emperor Wu of the Liang Dynasty's "Chongzhong Yixian" and Its Influence", ""Seal Engraving's Interpretation of Sources" and On the Relationship between Seal Engraving and Seal Engraving, and published "History of Seal Engraving in Qin and Han Dynasties", "History of Seal Engraving in the Qing Dynasty (Part 2)", "Seal Engraving Jinliang", "Seal Engraving Tutorial", "Interpretation and Translation of Sun Guoting's "Book Book"" and other works, as well as "Seal Engraving Techniques", "Study of Ancient Famous Masters' Steles and Calligraphy? Regular Script Series" 》 and five sets of instructional CD-ROMs.
Preface and Examples of "Shuowen Radical Notes"
This is a book that combines seal script writing with text annotations. It is intended for those who love seal script, learn seal script, and Readers who are interested in ancient writing may find some help.
The seal script of this book uses the radicals of "Shuowen Jiezi". We know that "Shuowen Jiezi" written by Xu Shen of the Eastern Han Dynasty is the earliest dictionary in my country and the world. It has extensive and profound content and plays a decisive role in traditional Chinese culture. "Shuowen Jiezi" classifies Chinese characters into different categories and creates 540 radicals to unify the 9,353 single characters in the book. As the saying goes, "If the net is in the outline, it is like Qiu Qie's collar." These radicals are the basic units that constitute the shape of Xiaozhuan characters. If they can be carefully understood and mastered proficiently, they will not only be of great help to deeply understand the value of "Shuowen Jiezi" and understand the formation rules of Chinese characters, but also be of great help in reading and studying seal scripts. Seal script will also be of great benefit.
Therefore, the radicals of "Shuowen" are not only the research objects of essayists and philologists, but also the daily routine of calligraphers of all dynasties, especially seal calligraphers, such as Yang Yisun and Wu Dacheng in the Qing Dynasty. During the Republic of China, Wang Fu'an and others all had seal script "Shuowen Radicals" in circulation, especially Wang Fu'an's calligraphy, which is full of elegance and elegance. It has become popular in the country in the past twenty years and is generally loved by those who are new to seal script. Unfortunately, most of the seal script radicals written by these famous seal script masters only have regular script explanations, or are accompanied by some straight-yin phonetic notation. Many beginners have the desire to further understand the meaning of the radicals when writing seal script radicals. Therefore, this book strives to combine radical writing and interpretation in order to meet the readers' requirements. Accordingly, this book is divided into two parts:
The first part is the radicals of the seal script narrative. They are all handwritten by the author, and the selected seal script glyphs for the radicals are all based on "Shuowen Jiezi". Even if the writing method of individual radicals is controversial in later generations, they are written according to it, but will be explained in the text annotation section. When writing, I referred to the structure and writing style of the above-mentioned famous predecessors. The writing level is difficult to match those of the predecessors, but it is enough to ensure that it does not hinder future learning. As for the idea of ??"Dharma calligraphy", I do not dare to think about it. The order in which the radicals are written is arranged according to the fourteen volumes of "Shuowen Jiezi". The book adopts a layout with pictures on the left and text on the right. Each page has four characters, and each character has a vertical grid of equal size in each frame to facilitate readers' reading.
The second part is annotations on the radicals in "Shuowen". The text content has a fixed style, which is explained in order as follows:
1. Radical serial number. The Arabic numeral serial number is listed before the regular script radical to facilitate scholars to determine the position of the radical in the 540 radicals.
2. Explanation of the radical in regular script. The interpretation shall be in Li Ding Traditional Chinese.
3. Radical phonetic notation.
It is indicated in parentheses that the phonetic notation is listed first in modern Chinese pinyin. If it is an uncommon character, the phonetic Chinese character with the sound "?" will be appended after the pinyin to facilitate people who are not familiar with Chinese pinyin (recognition and reading). The selected straight phonetic characters should be as accurate as possible. It is easy to understand; if the regular script explanation is traditional Chinese or a variant of ancient Chinese, the corresponding simplified characters will be appended directly after the pinyin, and the form of "yin" will no longer be used; if the regular script prefixes are the same as today's simplified characters and are common characters, then only Note the Chinese Pinyin; the pronunciation of the radicals has always been different, and the author was ignorant and did not dare to make a sudden conclusion, so he had to try his best to list the pronunciation of various phonetic notations for readers' reference.
4. The six-book classification of radicals. The definitions of the six books in the radicals of this book are generally based on the interpretations in the original book of "Shuowen". However, for some obvious misinterpretations of "Shuowen" that are recognized by the world, they will be changed according to public consensus, such as the word "Pi", "Shuowen" states that "congyou" is the pronunciation of "congyou", and "cong" is the character for "in any case. It cannot be seen that those shapes are omitted, and it is used as the diaphragm. Therefore, it is determined to be "knowing" according to the shape of oracle bones and inscriptions. In addition, due to certain limitations of the Six Books theory itself, Shuowen's interpretation of some radicals in the Six Books is ambiguous and unclear, and this is also controversial in the academic community. In order to maintain the integrity of the style of this book, the author chooses relatively reasonable definitions, including the radicals that "Shuowen" clearly indicates "Yisheng". He also tries to avoid combining categories and only explains them in the text notes. If "Can"? The word ? comes from the spoken word, and ? is also a phonetic word. It is ? Another example is the character "Tooth". Jiawen and Guwen are pictographic characters, but Xiaozhuan is a pictographic character, so this book is designated as a pictographic character.
5. "Shuowen" explains the radicals. This part of the text quotes the explanation from the original text of "Shuowen", but in order to save space, all the ? that appear in the text are derived from ?, and will be replaced by ellipses. If there are no ellipses in the quotation, it can be considered that "Every genus of something comes from something" at the end of the original text. In addition, the explanation quoted from "Shuowen" only quotes Xu Shen's original text, and the fanqie phonetic notation of Sun Wei's "Tang Yun" attached by Xu Xuan of the Song Dynasty, as well as the added annotations, are also omitted, but the correction and analysis are in Reasonably accepted in the text.
6. Introduce oracle bone inscriptions, bronze inscriptions and other glyphs. The explanation of radicals in this book strives to trace back to the origin of the characters, so it often quotes the Shang and Zhou oracle bone inscriptions and bronze characters of the radicals. Sometimes, in order to explain the evolution of the radicals, some Qin and Han characters are also quoted. The selected ancient glyphs are generally representative and have non-repeating configurations; if the radical does not have a corresponding oracle bone or bronze glyph, it is clearly stated that there is no such glyph. In order to explain the needs of the text, the letters A and B are occasionally placed in the text. It should be noted that all ancient character glyphs involved in this article are all scanned plates, without the author's handwriting, in order to maintain the original glyph appearance.
7. Explanation and interpretation of the text. This book mainly starts from tracing the origin of words, and based on the interpretation of form, it either directly explains the formation and evolution of the form and meaning of the radical that is more intuitive and has been basically recognized by the academic circles, or directly analyzes the original text explained in "Shuowen" Explain without further explanation. For controversial radicals, we adopt the method of quoting the opinions of various schools of thought and then choosing the good ones. For those that are highly controversial and cannot be determined, all opinions are listed side by side for readers' reference. The text of the annotation may contain some absurd remarks from the author, but please comment. For those who have written by many authors, or who list the author's name, book title, or indicate the author in parentheses, some of which cannot be stated explicitly due to limitations of style, length, or are omitted, please understand and refer to the bibliography at the back of the book to show that you do not dare to plunder the beauty. .
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