Study on the Correspondence Between Word and Characters on the Eastern Han Bamboo Slips

摘要

The research has been made on the characters in the Eastern Han bamboo slips. 161 characters in the Eastern Han bamboo slips are different from the traditional standard ones. These characters can be divided into two categories: first, from the Eastern Han Dynasty to the present, the correspondence between word and characters remains unchanged; This kind of invariance can also be divided into two situations: one is lasted from the beginning to the present, the other is lasted from the Eastern Han Dynasty to the present and it has changed before that. Second, from the Eastern Han Dynasty to the present, the correspondence between word and characters has changed. Now these Chinese characters record different words.