蜀字源于瞽矇考

Big Blind Eyes and the Origin of Primitive Chinese Character "Shu":A Study of Sculptures from the Sanxingdui and Jinsha Culture in Sichuan

对广汉三星堆和成都金沙遗址考古资料与相关文献的宗教学研究表明,"蜀"字的起源,确实非如许慎《说文解字》所说的来自对"葵中蚕"的观察描述,而是植根于古蜀祭祀系统,产生于商朝人对古蜀祭祀系统中的盲巫觋和大目神像之瞽矇睅目与跽坐体姿等突出特征的观察;"蜀"字是对这些最突出特征的简约集中的象形表达。这一结论本身又可以进一步对三星堆遗址坑的古蜀文化定性认识构成支持。

Religious studies on the striking features-big blind and protrudent eyes and kneel sitting gesture-of the sculptures from the Sanxingdui and Jinsha cites unearthed in Sichuan indicate that the origin of primitive pictographic Chinese character ＂Shu＂ is not ＂silkworm in hollyhock＂ as explained by Xu Shen in his Origin of Chinese Characters, but the religious system for praying and sacrificing offerings to gods and ancestors. The primitive pictographic Chinese character ＂Shu＂ should be created by people in the Shang Dynasty who were familiar with the ancient Shu religious rites in which the sculptures of witches and gods have big, protrudent but blind eyes and are all on their kneels. The character ＂Shu＂ is the most concise description of these features of the sculptures. Such a conclusion lends support to the verification of the ruins of Sanxingdui culture as part of ancient Shu culture.