Historian: "Who remembers, from right, from middle, from right?" Help translate! ! !

Original text: Xu Shen's explanation of the word "history" in Shuo Wen Jie Zi is: "Historians and recorders also hold the middle, middle and right from the right (again). 」

Translation (free translation): "history" refers to people who describe facts with a fair attitude. Or translated as: "history" refers to people who record facts impartially with their hands ("hands", pictographs).

However, Xu Shi's statement has been questioned by scholars, who think that Xu Shen's explanation is probably not the original meaning of history, but the meaning after historical extension. Wu Daxiao, a scholar in the Qing Dynasty, believes that historical figures are copied by hand from books, just like handwritten simplified characters, and the correct writing of the word "Zhong" should be simplified characters. Jiang Yong believes that "zhong" refers to official books, and "scholar" refers to people who master official documents (see below). Wang Guowei, a close friend, thinks that "clock" is an ancient calculating instrument, and the "mouth" inside is disc-shaped. Therefore, it is speculated that the original meaning of the word history book is to hold a device for calculation, and the meaning of calculation and strategy was interoperable in ancient times. Therefore, a historian is a person who carries out policies to keep records. Lao Gan, a close friend, found the word "yes" in Oracle Bone Inscriptions, which looks like the shape of a person holding a drill to drill a hole in an Oracle bone. Therefore, Lloyd's concluded that Ishihara was an official in charge of divination. The ancient historian was also in charge of the astronomical calendar. Because he has the function of communicating between heaven and man, he must understand the astronomical calendar.

Jiang Yong