Interpretation of nouns in philology

The definitions of commonly used terms in philology are: Oracle Bone Inscriptions, Jinwen, Shi Guwen, Santi Shijing, Dunhuang suicide note, etc.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions: It is an ancient writing in China, also known as Wen Qi's, Oracle Bone Inscriptions's, Yin Ruins' or tortoise shell and animal bones' books. The earliest mature Chinese characters we can see mainly refer to the characters carved on tortoise shells or animal bones by the royal family in China in the late Shang Dynasty, which is a carrier of the earliest systematic Shang Dynasty characters known in China and East Asia.

Bronze Inscription: Bronze Inscription refers to a calligraphy name of Chinese characters, which refers to the inscriptions cast on bronzes by Yin Shang and Zhou Dynasties, also known as Zhong Dingwen. Shang and Zhou Dynasties were the bronze age, with the tripod as the representative ritual vessel and the bell as the representative musical instrument. "Zhong Ding" was synonymous with bronze ware.

Shi Guwen: Shi Guwen was a stone carving figure in the pre-Qin period, so he got his name because he looked like a drum. Found in the early Tang Dynasty, there are ten * * * pieces, about three feet high and two feet in diameter, each engraved with a four-character poem of Dazhuan, with ten * * * pieces, accounting for 718 words. The content was originally considered as a narrative of the hunting scene of the king of Qin, so it was also called "hunting".

Dunhuang suicide note: Dunhuang suicide note, also known as Dunhuang documents, Dunhuang documents and Dunhuang manuscripts, is a general term for a batch of books discovered in Cave 17 of Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes in 1900, referring to ancient manuscripts and printed copies published in Dunhuang in the 4th-6th century.

Linguistics:

Philology is a science that studies literature and its development law. The research contents include: the characteristics, functions, types, emergence and distribution, development law, literature arrangement methods and development history of literature and philology. The foundation of scholarship, the source of information, and the way of further study. It can be divided into historical philology and classical philology according to the subject field.

Philology is produced and developed on the basis of accumulating experience in literary work. In order to collect, collate, communicate and use documents, it is necessary to study the characteristics, making methods and collating methods of documents, and sum up the laws from them, so as to gradually form philology.

Philology should be regarded as history. Textual research, bibliography and edition are all traditional branches of historical philology. These branches constitute historical philology, which points out the ways to collect historical materials from documents, identify historical materials, and determine their sources, nature, reliability and practical value.