楚卜筮祭祷简对语文辞书修订的价值

Value of Chu State Bamboo Slips of Divinations and Sacrificial Offerings to the Emendation of Chinese Dictionaries

楚卜筮祭祷简是对战国楚地卜筮、祭祀和祷祠情况的记录,对了解战国时代楚地的宗教信仰和礼祠制度具有重要意义。更可贵的是,里面较好地保存了先秦时代的语言面貌,这对辞书的修订提供了丰富的材料,可以据此提前文献书证、补充词语义项、增补辞书词汇。总之,这批材料对辞书的修订具有非常重要的价值,应当予以足够的重视。

The Chu state bamboo slips of divinations and sacrificial offerings are the records of the divination,sacrificing and praying,and are of great significance to the understanding of the religious beliefs and ritual systems of Chu State in the Warring States Period.What is more valuable is that they preserve the language of the pre-Qin period well,and provide a rich source of materials for the revision of the dictionaries.Based on these slips,the citations of literature can be advanced,word meanings replenished,dictionary vocabulary increased.In short,they have very important value for dictionary revision and enough attention should be paid to them.