汉字阐释的传承与创新

Inheritance and Innovation of Chinese Character Interpretation

以《说文》为代表的传统汉字阐释兴盛一千多年,随着新材料的出现和新理论的输入,汉字研究的学科分化,汉字阐释由于社会需求不足与未能学科化等原因逐渐衰微。随着社会的发展,汉字阐释的社会需求、学术条件、研究队伍都发生了重大变化,传承优秀传统,探索新的汉字阐释范式,逐渐学科化,建立起汉字阐释学成为可能。文章分析汉字阐释衰微的原因与复兴的可能,探讨汉字阐释的学理和内容,确立研究的原则,对汉字阐释的未来进行了展望。文章认为汉字阐释是综合运用古文字学、理论文字学、语言学、文献学、历史学、考古学等多学科知识对汉字构形、演变、关系、所蕴含的文化及各种功能等进行详细描写和充分解释的学术研究,属于多学科交叉的基础理论研究。本文是汉字阐释实践的理论概括。

The traditional interpretation of Chinese character represented by“Shuowen Jiezi”,after its over one thousand boom years,gradually diminished with the emergence of new materials,the input of new theories,the division in the disciplines of Chinese characters,and the failure in establishment of the discipline of Chinese character interpretation due to insuffi cient social needs and etc.With the development of society,there have been major changes in the social needs,academic conditions,and research teams of Chinese character interpretation.It’s the need for inheritance of excellent traditions,the exploration of new paradigms of Chinese character interpretation and the gradual disciplinary development that make it possible to establish Chinese character hermeneutics.The article analyzes the reasons for the decline of Chinese character interpretation and the possibility of its revival,discusses the theory and content of Chinese character interpretation,establishes the research principles,and looks forward to the future of Chinese character interpretation.Chinese character interpretation aims for a comprehensive description and full explanation of the structure,evolution,relationship,culture and various functions of Chinese characters using multi-disciplinary knowledge such as paleography,theoretical philology,linguistics,philology,history,and archaeology,which is of the basic theoretical research of multidisciplinary intersection.This article is a theoretical overview of the practice of Chinese character interpretation.