《说文解字》艸部药食类植物词语名称考释(之二下)——草药类

A Philological Study of the Medicinal Herbs and Vegetables Represented by Characters under the Radical "艸" in Shuo Wen Jie Zi

《说文解字·艹部》的词语中有不少是关于蔬菜类、草药类或者是两者兼类的植物的。但是很多词语由于许慎的说解很简单,有些甚至解释成别的意思了,致使人们不知他们的确切含义。对于这些词语,弄清楚他们的确切的含义以及和现代汉语中相对应的名称,能为当代人读懂《说文解字》该章节扫清障碍,进一步了解古代社会我国民众使用中草药和食用蔬菜的基本状况。并且为现代社会人们提供药用类和食用类蔬菜一些有益的借鉴,取其精华,去其糟粕,达到古为今用的目的。

Quite a few words under the radical' 'in Shuo Wen Jie Zi, an etymological dictionary byXu Shen, represent names of vegetables, medicinal herbs, or plants that are both vegetables and medicinalherbs. Many of them, however, are defined insufficiently, and some are even defined incorrectly, so theyare difficult to understand. The study presented in this paper helps people to find out the exact meaningof these words and know their corresponding terms in modern Chinese so that people can understand thispart of Shuo Wen Jie Zi without difficulty and have a clear knowledge of the herbal medicines and thevegetables people in our country had in ancient times. It also provides people with a reference about vegetables used as medicine and vegetables used as food. In this way, people can make the past serve thepresent, and benefit from that book better.