清华十《四时》中一种特殊写法的“中”字

On a Special Form of Character Zhong(中)in the Sishi(《四时》)of the Bamboo Slips Collected by Tsinghua University(Vol.10)

本文根据古文字形体、古音通假知识和传世文献材料,认为清华十《四时》简2和简4中的“■”字应释为“中”,读为“融”。简2中的“融冻”意为冰冻融化;简4中的“四钩皆融”意为四钩都很明亮,即四钩全部出现在天空中。

According to the form of ancient Chinese characters,the knowledge of ancient phonetics and the handed-down documents,this paper holds that the character in the 2nd and 4th bamboo slips of the Sishi(《四时》)in the Bamboo Slips Collected by Tsinghua University(Vol.10)should be interpreted as zhong(中)and read as rong(融).In the 2nd bamboo slip,rongdong(融冻)means“melting of ice and snow”;in the 4th bamboo slip,sigou jierong(四钩皆融)means that sigou(四钩)stars are very bright(i.e.,all of the stars appearing in the sky).