Why the Emperor Qin Shi Huang Took 'ZHEN' as the First Exclusive Person Pronoun of the Emperors

摘要

This article gives a brief introduction to relevant discussions from writings of domestic China of the issue that why the emperor Qin Shi Huang took "ZHEN" as the first exclusive person pronoun of the emperors. Meanwhile, it indicates the most fundamental and essential reason is that, starting from the oracle, "ZHEN" is normally used by princes, ministers and other nobles or men of noble status. Other relevant discussions seeing from the main articles of why Qin Shi Huang claimed himself with "ZHEN" in China now point "the most common syntactic function of 'ZHEN' was as an attributive" and 'ZHEN' is an ancient word with quaint and solemn expressive meaning." In fact, these secondary reasons mentioned above are closely and directly related to the referential meaning of "ZHEN".