Our ancestors made the brilliant achievements in studyingCharacter structure in Ancient China, which laying the foundation for today’s research. From Han to Qing dynasty, the achievements of Characterstructure study mainly are: First, realized the importance of Characterstructure; Second, improved the systematical theory about Characterstructure: 1. The theory of grapheme constituting character. 2. Thehierarchical structure theory about Character. 3. The theory of thegrapheme having different functions. Third, made a substantial researchabout Character structure: 1. The research about the character. 2. Theresearch about the grapheme. 3. The systematical research about the whole Chinese Characters. But these researches had some shortcomings: not making concepts distinction between “ radicals ” and “ Chinese character component”; lacking of the character’s formal structure research, and so on. In ancient China, we had already constructed the systematical theory about character structure, this fact is helpful to correct the mistake about the claim that “in ancient china, there was no scientific theoretical system of philology”.

中国古代的汉字结构研究，取得了辉煌的成就，为今天的汉字结构研究奠定了坚实的基础。从汉至清，汉字结构研究的成就主要有：第一、对于汉字结构的重要性有了充分的认识。第二、提出了系统的汉字结构理论：1. 由字素构成整字的理论；2. 汉字层级结构理论；3. 字素具有不同的功能的理论。第三、对汉字结构进行了实际的研究：1.对整字的结构的研究；2. 对字素的研究；3. 对全汉字系统结构的研究。古人的汉字结构研究仍存在着不足：未把“偏旁”与“字原”的概念区分开来；对于汉字形体的结构也缺乏研究等等。我国古代已经构建了系统的汉字结构理论，这个事实有助于纠正“中国古代的文字学没有科学的理论体系”这一说法的偏颇。

• 连登岗(南通大学文学院，电子信箱) | Lian Deng-gang