A new generation of scholars will no longer obscure the obscure study of ancient Chinese characters

2023-10-09

In September of this year, students participating in the "Tree People Cup" took a group photo on the campus of Renmin University of China. The interviewee provided a picture of "being knowledgeable and determined", which is derived from the "Analects of Confucius: Zi Zhang" and is also a sentence in the motto of Fudan University. In the "Shuren Cup" Future Ancient Chinese Scholars Academic Essay Competition held at Renmin University of China in September this year, Peng Ruofeng, a senior student majoring in Chinese Language and Literature under the Strong Foundation Program of Fudan University (majoring in ancient Chinese characters), re explored the meaning of "Duzhi". Based on previous research and the new material unearthed from the tomb of the Marquis of Hai Hun in the Western Han Dynasty, which is the inscription on Confucius' clothing mirror, "Who is knowledgeable but familiar", she believes that it is more reasonable to understand it as "focused, practical, and continuous memory" compared to "determined ambition". For thousands of years, there have been many annotators of the Analects, and often there are many misunderstandings in the understanding of the same sentence. Several ancient Chinese scholars who served as judges believe that Peng Ruofeng's article, based on a detailed cleaning of old theories and reliable new theories based on ancient Chinese literature, is not easy and deserves the first prize. Archaeology is a discipline that learns to read ancient Chinese characters such as oracle bone inscriptions and bronze inscriptions, and uses ancient writing materials to study language, literature, history, and other issues. Due to high barriers, long training cycles, and difficulty in producing results, it is considered a "rare skill". Some scholars estimate that, based on the number of participants at the biennial annual meeting of the Chinese Association for the Study of Ancient Chinese Characters, there are over 200 core forces in the study of ancient Chinese characters in China. A new attempt is bringing about change. In 2020, the "Strong Foundation Plan" included the study of ancient Chinese characters in the undergraduate enrollment plan of universities. More than ten universities in China recruit several to more than 20 students each year, in order to select and cultivate future ancient Chinese characters experts for the country. When the "cold bench" of ancient philology meets the "hot demand", writing is the carrier of civilization inheritance. Studying ancient writing is of great significance in exploring cultural connotations and continuing cultural traditions. As a fundamental discipline in the humanities and social sciences, the status of ancient Chinese characters can be compared to mathematics in natural sciences: significant in significance, but far from social production. Cheng Hao, a teacher at the Center for Research and Protection of Unearthed Documents at Tsinghua University, explained that the study of ancient Chinese characters not only requires "character recognition", but also involves interdisciplinary disciplines such as linguistics, phonology, philology, history, and even astronomy, mathematics, and medical formulas. Unlike divergent and interpretive studies in general liberal arts studies, the results of the study of the ontology of characters in ancient Chinese calligraphy can be verified; In the field of literature, history, and philosophy, many "growth points" rely on the discovery of unearthed literature, that is, the interpretation of new materials through the use of ancient philology. In the past decade or so, new materials have been unearthed in a "blowout" manner. Wang Hui, a professor of Chinese language and philology at Shandong University, takes the Warring States Chu bamboo slips as an example. Tsinghua University's collection of Warring States bamboo slips and Anhui University's collection of Warring States bamboo slips are gradually being published, and the content of these two batches of materials is very important; In terms of Qin slips, there have been successively published works such as Hunan Liye Qin slips, Qin slips collected by Peking University, and Qin slips collected by Yuelu Academy; In terms of Han slips, there are continuous publications such as Peking University Tibetan Han slips, Hangquan Han slips, and Jianshui Jinguan Han slips. As the older generation of scholars gradually withdraw, the study of ancient Chinese characters requires a new generation of scholars to join and continue to interpret and research. however

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