Comparing some special words and phrases usage from Qing Hua Bamboo Inscriptions Vol. 1 to 5, we discover that special forms of words are suspected. Their writings don’t not belong to the normal characters at the Warring States period, on the contrary, they can only be found on the Shang Dynasty Oracle, Chou bronze in ancient china, and Li-Shu (隸書), Kai-Shu (楷書) after Han dynasty separately. We doubt that writings of Qing Hua Bamboo were fake by nowadays people.

Chapter One (甲篇) of Yin Yang Wu Xing in “The Compilation of Mawangdui Silk Manuscript” (《長沙馬王堆漢墓集成》), which has been seriously damaged, still needs further adjustments. From line 1 to 16 (Jicheng Vol.1 p250-251) in Zhu Shen Ji Xiong, we delete two silk pieces and move 2 other pieces according to the Fan Yin Wen (反印文) in Chapter Xi (徙), Tian Di (天地) and Nv Fa (女發) (Ji Cheng Vol.1 p244-245). Some pieces have been added. New transcription can be given by those adjustments. We notice that figures in this chapter were pieced and numbered mistakenly. Some line numbers of transcriptions do not match their figures. In addition, some texts that can be read together were separated.

Philological Studies of Epitaph in Sui Dynasty (《隋代墓誌銘彙考》) is the latest achievement of the current literature research of the Sui Dynasty epitaph, which is very importan for the study of politics, history, culture and language etc. But the book also has some little mistakes, especially on the words and punctuation of sentences. Basing on checking the original rubbings, this paper revised 20 cases from the perspective of evolution rules of Chinese characters, the words matching, Context meaning and Chinese characters rhyme etc.

According to the inscriptions on Bronze wares in West Zhou Dynasty, we know the history. Some bronze wares are only inscribed on clan names, names of makers or ancestors titles and so on. But some of the bronze wares reflect the cause of wars, the content of crusade and the ceremonial activities. Many things are inscribed on the bronze wares for recording, so names related weapons on inscriptions are plentiful. This paper focusing on weapons like Dun (盾), gan (干), jia (甲), zhou (胄) and so on recorded in inscriptions discusses their names and functions. According to the shape and reorganization and textual criticisms and explanations to grapheme, we classified the weapons and textually research their meanings with the help of new research achievements and the reference of literature and unearthed material.

The Dictionary of Chinese Variants Characters (《異體字字典》), compiled by Ministry of Education, has cited 62 philology books and 1242 practical literatures to collect 29892 standard characters and 76338 variant characters. There are 106230 characters in total in The Dictionary of Chinese Variants Characters (《異體字字典》). It is absolutely a large-scale work of Chinese characters. The Dictionary of Chinese Variants Characters (《異體字字典》) adopts the stratified method. All standard characters and variant characters are well-indexed by establishing links between every standard character and its variant(s). The same criteria of standard character is also adopted by The List of Commonly-used Characters ( 《常用字表》), The List of Less-commonly-used Characters (《不常用字表》) and The list of Rarely-used Characters (《疑难字表》). Meeting the criteria, 29528 characters are eligible. Furthermore, to satisfied the needs of practical use, additional 364 characters are also collected. Those “standard characters” and “variants”, in the dictionary, not created to be “standard” or “variant”. On the contrary, when a charater is defined as “the standard”, its remaining isomeric siblings would turn into “variants” spontaneously. Therefore, The definition of “variant” in the dictionary is : With the same nature and meanings, but different stracture and form to its standard counterpart. This article is about the criteria of standard character which adopted by The Dictionary of Chinese Variants Characters (《異體字字典》), and the association between a standard character and its variant(s).

Chinese characters belong to not only Chinese, but also many scholars around the world interested in Chinese culture. Therefore it is imperative to study on systematicnessof Chinese characters forms and regulations. Ministry of Education, R.O.C since the 1970 safter many efforts of national research scholar, finished Dictionary of Chinese Variants Characters (《異體字字典》) in 1995, which can be a basis of different graphemes phenomena. Dictionary of Chinese Variants Characters (《異體字字典》) has a lot of benefits for us to configuration reasoningand applicationof Chinese characters. With time passing by Dictionary of Chinese Variants Characters (《異體字字典》) must be revised. With the 2013 Mainland announcing the “Common Standard Chinese Characters Table (《通用規範漢字表》)”, as well as increasingly frequent cross-strait transportation, “It cannot be ignored that Dictionary of Chinese Variants Characters (《異體字字典》) Should have a comprehensive collection of Chinese mainland Simplified, in order to facilitate business travel. This paper discussesorigin and codification spirit of the Dictionary of Chinese Variants Characters (《異體字字典》), China mainland Simplified Character evolution and development and Simplified Character included in Dictionary of Chinese Variants Characters (《異體字字典》), etc. We should have a comprehensive review of the China mainland Simplified Character. And those with constitutive principlecan be as a conclusion the standard orthographic variant. This kind of improvement can expand the practical efficiency and enhance the impact of the Dictionary of Chinese Variants Characters (《異體字字典》).

We can learn about and sum up the spread history of Chinese traditional musical instruments in East Asian countries according to the literature of other ancient books. But as a dictionary in ancient Korea, Zilei zhushi (《字類註釋》) completely recorded historical information of material and spiritual culture depending on its selectivity, model, practicability, learning, accuracy and objectivity characteristics at that time. Names of the instruments it recorded not only reflect the historical introduction process of the Chinese traditional musical instruments in South Korea, but also represent the level of understanding of Chinese traditional musical instruments in the ancient Korean. By using the Chinese Dictionary in Ancient Korean and referring to Chinese classics literature dictionaries, this paper attempts to focus on examining collection, classification and characters of the musical instrument names and further discussing the spread track of Chinese traditional music culture and Chinese character culture in East Asia.

The Wangmang’s Xin dynasty is the special period in Chinese history, the Wangmang’s governing philosophy and cultural awareness had great influence on both the structure and the usage of the Chinese characters. We make a comprehensive collection of these script materials. This paper has reviewed the special usage of Chinese characters during the Wangmang’s Xin dynasty from three points of view: the shapes of Chinese characters, the construction of Chinese characters, the functions and usages of Chinese character. Further, we hold the opinion that the reform of writing system was the Xin dynasty’s basic policy. And the special usage of Chinese characters during the Wangmang’s Xin Dynasty is important references for division of cultural relic and literature history into periods.

In the oral literature of Qing Dynasty, there are a lot of Chanese characters with variant forms, including the standardized and vulgar forms, the traditional and simplified forms, and the ancient and modern forms. These variant forms of the same character ususlly can tell us the evolution of the word meaning and pronunciation, and also can tell us the new difference of the wording meaning and pronunciation between the forms of the character in Qing Dynasty, such as “得dĕi-得„ (《Yu yen tzuerh chi》)、哪-那„ (《Yu yen tzuerh chi》)、狠/哏-很、這麼-這們、喝-欱、他-怹tān（《Yan jingfuyu》）”. Therefore, the variant forms of the same character have great value in the history of words. In the literature of dialect in Qing Dynasty, the words of dialect recorded the pronunciation of dialect very well, yet these dialect words have not been paid much attention to in academic research. It is expected that these variant forms of the same character can draw more attention in researching of ancient books.

Chinese ancient literacy teaching is tteaching and learning of characters which refers to use paper as the carrier of copying or print the words in Chinese ancient books before 1911 years. Ancient literacy teaching has its particularity. At present there is only the system of standard Chinese literacy teaching in domestic, but no system of ancient literacy teaching. The phenomenon of scattered, random and inefficient in ancient literacy teaching seriously affect the reading, sorting and study of ancient books. The cause of this situation is not fully understanding the uniqueness of ancient literacy teaching. The situation is difficult to adapt to the current requirement of reading, sorting and researching in ancient books. Therefore, we need build the system of ancient literacy teaching mechanism in urgent. The relevant authorities should change cognition and elevate the status of ancient literacy teaching. Establishing a relatively independent ancient literacy teaching system, improving the method of teaching words in ancient books and establishing the implemented platform of teaching words in ancient books improve the teaching level and quality of ancient books to read so as to meet the needs of the ancient books reading and researching.

Chinese characters underwent the process of conversion of seal script to clerical script, transitioning from lines to strokes in composition. the degree of tokenization components increased markedly. Some characters could no longer be classified by radicals as explained under the “unified by form and meaning” principle described in Shuowen Jiezi (《說文解字》). Thus in the Ming Dynasty, Zihui (《字彙》) eliminated and combined many of the radicals in Shuowen Jiezi (《說文解字》), and adopted the principle of “classification under form and not meaning” for classification purposes. The Kangxi Dictionary (《康熙字典》) from the Qing Dynasty continued the tradition of 214 radicals included in Zihui (《字彙》). Though radicals were established and classified according to two principles: convenient perusal and being true to the meaning of characters created by ancients, the form and meaning of characters become disassociated after conversion of seal script to clerical script, though the original theory of character creation which linked external composition of character with internal meaning was passed on. As the two radical classification principles of classification through form and classification through meaning conflicted with one another, the book adopted the principle of radical classification through form to facilitate convenient perusal. Thus, some radicals were iconized, losing their function to convey meaning or sound in characters. From the perspective of the development of clerical script, clerical script from the Qin Dynasty (qinli) is also referred to as “ancient clerical script” (guli), an early form of clerical script during this transition period between ancient and modern characters. Development of clerical script reached maturation in the Han Dynasty, with the Eight Points (bafen) script. This paper attempted to organize the mark process that Chinese characters underwent during the conversion of seal script to clerical script, through utilizing ancient texts which have been unearthed, Han Dynasty steles, and texts from Qin and Han Dynasty bamboo and wooden slips unearthed in the past few decades as research material. The hope was to uncover the evolutionary process and original form of iconized radicals as they formed.

here are two ways of segmenting Chinese characters: form-based segmentation and etymology-based segmentation, which have come up with different conclusions. They, with their own theories and values, are complementary to each other, and serve Chinese character teaching in different ways from different perspectives. Form-based segmentation may produce the minimum form units of characters, which can be arranged into the basic form units. Basic form units can help character learners to get an initial knowledge of the form of characters, and thus to lay a good foundation for character learning.