颜色与中国古代文献分类——以分类为中心看颜色在文献中的功用

Color and Document Classification in Ancient China: The Classification-centered Functions of Color in Document

在中国古代,颜色充当了一种文献分类的非常规手段。自先秦至清代,以颜色分类文献主要表现在以下领域:官方文书制作、图书出版领域、文献收藏领域、套色印刷领域。颜色在文献分类方面的功能主要包括三个方面:对"书"的区分、对"人"的区分、对"意"的象征;文献分类的层次包括基于文献单元的分类和基于知识单元的分类。古人以颜色分类文献,受到五色观与正色观念、等级秩序和礼仪制度、天人合一等传统哲学思想的影响,并对图书排架、政治生活、语言文化产生了重要影响,体现了文献事业与社会大环境的交互作用。参考文献54。

In ancient China, color was an uncommon means of document classification. From pre-Qin period to Qing Dynasty, classifying documents with color mainly existed in the following fields： offieial document, book publishing, literature collection, and chromatography printing, etc. The functions of color in document classification include： distinguishing ＂books＂, distinguishing ＂people＂, and symbolizing ＂meanings＂; and the levels of classifying based on color consist of documentary units level and knowledge units level. Classifying documents by color in ancient China was influenced by related factors, such as the concept of five-colors and orthodox-colors, hierarchical order and ritual system, the theory that man is an integral part of nature, and so on; it has an important influence on color code used in libraries, political life and Chinese language culture. In a word, documents and the society are related with each other. 54 refs.