巴蜀符号述论

On the Ba-Shu Script

通过对现有考古材料的梳理,巴蜀符号有人形、动物形、植物形、器物形、建筑形、几何形等,主要分布在四川盆地西部以成都平原为中心的南北条状地带以及重庆至枝江的峡江地区,时代为战国初期至西汉早期。巴蜀符号有几种特定的复合性组合,其方向的重要性与复杂性并存,对它的讨论应当与器用联系起来。

The trimming of the archaeological data available to date reflected that the Ba-Shu script are mainly distributed in the strip-shaped zone in the west of Sichuan Basin centered by Chengdu Plain and the Three Gorges area from Chongqing to Zhijiang. The 272 characters of Ba-Shu script include human-shaped, animal- shaped, plant-shaped, utensil-shaped, architecture-shaped, geometric types, etc., the dates of which are from the early Warring-States Period to the early Western Han Dynasty. The Ba-Shu script has some special compound assemblages, the importance and complexity of the orientations of which are coexisting, and the discussions on them should be associated with the functions of the utensils bearing them. No ethnic and racial differences have been found on the characters of the Ba-Shu script, but it cannot be excluded that they have tribal or regional characteristics.