Abstract
Mei Ying Zuo's Zi Hui simplified the 540 indexing components of Shuo Wen into 214. The order of the indexing components and the characters contained in each radical are arranged according to the number of strokes. It has made a pioneering contribution to reforming the shortcomings of inconvenient retrieval of dictionaries. Script of Stone Drum as the treasure of the Palace Museum in Beijing, since it was unearthed in Tian Xing County in the early Tang Dynasty, famous poets have written and praised it. Zi Hui is the first large-scale dictionary to officially record the stone drum characters, which indicates that the influence of stone drum characters gradually entered the public from the professional study of ancient characters. The research on Zi Hui has been exhausted, but so far there has been nothing special discussion about the quotation of Stone Drums in the book. This article makes a detailed statistics of Stone Drums that quoted in Zi Hui, checks the rubbings of Stone Drums, explains the opinions of Zi Hui, and explores its advantages and disadvantages, as well as the inspiration for the compilation of large-scale dictionaries in future.
| Translated title of the contribution | The Confluence of the Old Stream and the New Spring-A Textual Research on Quoting Stone Drums in Zi Hui |
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| Original language | Chinese (Traditional) |
| Pages (from-to) | 71-108 |
| Number of pages | 38 |
| Journal | 成大中文學報 ＝ Journal of Chinese Literature of National Cheng Kung University |
| Issue number | 79 |
| Publication status | Published - 2022 Dec |