“辰”字文化信息考辩

On the Cultural Connotation of the Chinese Character “Chen”

从汉代许慎以降1800多年来,汉语汉字的教学一直存在很大误区:即脱离了汉语语词确立的理据和文化背景,脱离了汉字音、形、义结合的规律。笔者研究发现,汉语语词的音义结合是具有内在的逻辑理据的,而作为记录汉语语词的可视符号,汉字不仅能够反映中华民族的认知、思维模式,而且蕴含着丰富的中华文化信息。本文结合"辰"字的古音、古形、古义,将辰字蕴涵的认知、思维模式,以及文化信息和文化哲学意蕴揭示了出来,对于今天汉语汉字教学方式的转变有着十分重要的启发意义。

The Chinese characters teaching in China has attracted our attention since the earlier period of the great master Xushen over 1800 years ago . The importance of the examining of culture source has been overlooked in teaching , thus failing to observe the Chinese characters rules formed in three dimensions ：the sound , the form and the meaning . It is found by the author that they are inherently connected and visually symbolized in Chinese language recording , which plays an important part in the current Chinese teaching around the world . If we base our teaching of Chinese characters on the sound , the form and the meaning of a Chinese character which is examined through the pattern of Chinese thinking and cognition as well as the rich connotation of Chinese culture , we can greatly Chinese character teaching .The author of this paper makes a case study of the Chinese character “Chen”.