永乐大钟汉字铭文新发现及研究

New Discovery and Research on the Chinese Characters Inscription of Yongle Bell

“永乐大钟及馆藏古钟文物铭文、纹饰研究”课题组成功采集钟体图像,并完成了汉文、梵文和其他铭文符号的分类、计数、甄别,发现大钟夹缝处隐藏梵文,统计出永乐大钟现存的铭文总数共计231277字(个)。并且发现汉字铭文在排版上有东起旋转排列现象、遵循名号完整原则现象,并发现唯一一处排版错误。将汉字铭文与传世经文版本比校后,又发现个别汉字铭文存在多次重复经文名现象,经文内容与传世版本有出入,铭文所录经文不完整现象等。

The research group of Research on the Inscriptions and Patterns of Yongle Bell and its Cultural Relics in the Museum successfully collected the bell body images,and completed the classification,counting and screening of Chinese,Sanskrit and other inscriptions.It found that Sanskrit is hidden in the crevices of the bell,and counted the totally 231277 words of existing inscriptions of Yongle Bell.It is also found that there are some characteristics on the typesetting of Chinese character inscriptions,such as rotation and arrangement from the east,adherence to the principle of name integrity,and typographical errors.After comparing the Chinese character inscription with the handed down version of the scripture,we found that the Chinese character inscription has the phenomenon of repeating the name of the scripture several times,the contents of the scripture is different from the handed down versions,and the inscription scripture is incomplete.