Chapter 29 Searching for Living Words in Ancient Books

Luo Tan It is possible to find movable characters in ancient books, but it is impossible to do it. He couldn't find a movable character in that ancient book. If there are "young people who can read "Selected Works"" here, it would be a few high school students. He opened "Selected Works" and was determined to find a living vocabulary, of course he knew that some characters in it were dead.But how does he distinguish between the dead and the dead of those words?Probably you can only use your own understanding as the standard.However, the words that you only understand after reading Liuchen’s note [2] cannot be counted, because this is a dead body, and Liuchen memorized it into his brain, so it is considered a living person. "Youth who can read "Anthology"" still has a dead guy in front of him.So he has to read Baiwen.

It is true that there are people who can understand without looking at the notes. This is the vocabulary of movable characters.But how did he know it in the first place?This must be a vocabulary that he has seen in other books, or is still in use, so he understands it.So, what did you find in a "Selected Works"? However, Mr. Shi said that it is useful when describing palaces and the like.This is very good. There are many Fus in "Wen Xuan" are about palaces, and there are some special Fus for palaces. If a young man wants to write a historical novel about the Han and Jin Dynasties, and describe the palaces of that time, he should look for "Wen Xuan" instead of "Four Histories" and "Book of Jin"[3].However, the uncommon word used is nothing more than carrying out the dead body, so it is called "resurrection" in a mysterious way.If you want to describe the Palace Museum of the Qing Dynasty, then there will be very little connection with "Wen Xuan".

If you don't even want to describe the Imperial Palace of the Qing Dynasty, but the preparatory work is so extensive, it is really futile and not enough.Because there are also "Yi Li" [4], the vocabulary in it is useful when describing the divination lessons and weddings and funerals of the Zhou Dynasty, and it must also be used as the "foundation of literary accomplishment", which is more like "literary youth". " look.November 6th. [1] This article was originally published in "Shenbao Free Talk" on November 9, 1933. 〔2〕Liu Chen Annotated "Wen Xuan" was first annotated by Li Shan in the Tang Dynasty, and later by "Lu Yanji, Liu Liang, Zhang Xian, Lu Xiang, and Li Zhouhan".

〔3〕The collective name of "Four Histories", "Historical Records", "Han Shu", "Later Han Shu", and "Three Kingdoms". "Book of Jin", written by Fang Xuanling and others in the Tang Dynasty, is a biographical history book describing the history of the Jin Dynasty. 〔4〕 "Yi Li", also known as "Book of Rites", is a Confucian classic, a compilation of some ritual data in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods.