The Scholium Term Zhi-Yan in Zheng Xuan’s Annotations on the Three Rites, and the Development of Zhi-Yan’s Meaning as a Scholium Term
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臺大中文學報, 41, 033-084
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臺大中文學報
Journal Issue
41
Pages
033-084
Date Issued
2013-06
Date
2013-06
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Abstract
The word zhi-yan has been regarded as a scholium term to indicate the origin of a Chinese character, but this study makes a new discovery after analyzing the zhi-yan in Zheng Xuan’s Annotations on the Three Rites. In the Annotations on the Rites of Zhou, Zheng follows the traditional method of using it mostly to trace word origins and occasionally to explain word meanings. In the Annotations on the Book of Rites, it is equally used for word origins and word meanings; in the Annotations on the Mao Poetry, it is mainly used to explain word meanings. Clearly, Zheng Xuan first uses zhi-yan etymologically but in the end explanatorily.
Zheng Xuan’s zhi-yan is a turning point in the development of Chinese terminology. The term is firstly used to rectify word meanings in the Mengzi, and this usage prevails most when Dong Zhong-Shu’s emphasis on sound glosses leads to the prosperity of New Texts studies and text divination. Then dictionaries such as the Explaining and Analyzing Characters and the Explaining Names use it to describe word origins instead. Under the influence of Zheng Xuan’s annotations, zhi-yan is gradually used to explain word meanings, and this usage later becomes the mainstream of scholium studies.
Subjects
鄭玄、三禮注、訓詁術語、之言、聲訓(Zheng Xuan, Annotations on the Three Rites, scholium terminology, zhi-yan, sound glosses）
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journal article
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