What is included in exegesis

Pronounced: xùngǔ

The interpretation of the meanings of words (or the meanings of words) in ancient languages or dialects in common parlance is called "exegesis".

There are some "specific ways" of "exegesis" as well as "commonly used terms", which are introduced as follows:

The specific ways of exegesis are divided into the following Three types:

One "form training": it is to explain the meaning of words through the analysis of the structure of the text form, i.e., to explain the meaning of words by taking the shape of the word is called form training. "Six books" in the "hieroglyphic, refers to things, will mean" three types of characters have a direct relationship with the meaning of the word shape, and the "form of the word" of the "symbols of meaning "The meaning of a character can also be labeled as a category of meaning. Therefore, analyzing the shape of a character plays an important role in understanding the original meaning of the character. In "Shuowen", shape training is the most basic way of interpretation. In addition to the direct statement of its meaning, the part of analyzing the structure of the character form is an example of shape training.

The second "sound training": to explain the meaning of a word by using words with the same or similar sound is called sound training. For example, "Shuowen" "day, upside down"; "Household, protect also", "side, Pu also" (Note: ① Pu, the ancient read pang, now read pu three, the meaning of the vast, such as: Pu Yuan.); and "interpretation of the name":: the original Pu. And as in "Interpretation of Names": "Day, real, bright and full of reality." "Clothes, according to also, people rely on to cover the cold and heat also." "Room, also, the sides of the room also" and so on.

Three "righteousness training": directly explain the meaning of the word, called righteousness training. The "righteousness training" is subdivided into three kinds (i.e., direct training, turn training, Chen said), is described as follows:

Broadly speaking, exegesis

refers to "exegesis".

Broadly speaking, exegesis

means the study of ancient literature, which is a department of traditional Chinese "philology" and a discipline that studies ancient literature mainly from the perspective of "semantics".

An exegetical research object is: the ancient written language in the exegesis.

The content of exegesis is: semantics. That is, the meaning of words in ancient written language. Among them, the meaning of the words in the ancient books before the Han and Wei Dynasties. The focus is on the study of the ideological content and emotional coloring of the meaning of words, the meaning system of words and the relationship between the differentiation of words and derivation, the emergence and development of words.

The task of the three exegeses is: to analyze the contradictory obstacles of ancient written language, to summarize the experience of the previous annotation, to clarify the system of exegesis, the examples of meaning, the methodology and the use of the situation, in order to better guide the exegesis and the teaching of the ancient language related to this, the ancient books, lexicography and other work.