《Lao-tze Tao-Terh-Ching 》Edition comparison — based on the study of bamboo slips at Kuao-tien

• Main Authors: Chiang Yuan-Yuan, 姜元媛
• Other Authors: Shih-Hsion Huang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 1999
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/62893759518194005741

碩士 === 淡江大學 === 教育資料科學學系 === 87 === The original copy of 《Lao-tze Tao-terh Ching》contains nothing more than 5000 words. Tao-terh Ching, extensive and profound, circulated through ages all over the world for over2400 years, has played an important role, during the period of the Former Chin,in the study of the history of ideology, the hisstory of learning and the history of religions .The annotation of 《Lao-tze Tao-terh Ching》at all ages being numerous ,editions and versions being dilfferent,there is no agreement of opinion at all. However, different editions may cause different study conclusions. Whether to miss out words by accident,to evolve words, to inverse, to misidentify bamboo slips,or even to distort deliberately ( bogus words or words avoided mentioning ),to damage by drawing,etc. ,will all lead learners to different study and realization of the Chinese Classics and principles and will consequently have a profound influence. Since December,1973,two kinds of transcripts of 《Lao-tzeTao-terh Ching》, Book A( Hsiao-chuan, a type of calligraphy) and Book B(Li-shu,official script),both excavated from Han tomb of Ma--Wang--Tuei at Chang-sha,Hu-nan,have actually proved to be written between Chin Dynasty and Han Dynasty and accomplished before Chin-shih-huang unified the whole country under the Chin Dynasty. But in the winter of 1993,about 800-odd bamboo slips of Chu tomb were excavated from Chu tomb,Kuo-tien No. 1, including various ancient books,among which chapters A,B,C, in the simplified copy of 《Lao-tze Tao-terh Ching》have still been the earliest circulated transcripts of 《Lao-tze Tao-terh Ching》. This thesis centers on the study of Chapters A,B,and C of bamboo slips in 《Lao-tze Tao-terh Ching》excavated from Chu tomb of Kuo-tien, juxtaposing and collating editions of all generations and connected sentences in each chapter. The main purpose is to compare and examine 《Lao-tze Tao-terh Ching》by doing scholarly research on edition compare and study, juxtaposing the editions handed down from generation to generation and explanatory versions so that scholars studying 《Lao-tze Tao-terh Ching 》may use it for reference,to revise the text of classic books of all generations and correct careless mistakes in explanatory versions. This thesis has adopted the comparative method of the library science, documentary analytic method, and history-studying method to conduct related researches. The steps are as follows: (1) To collect the editions of 《Lao-tze Tao-terh Ching》and related documents,by first centering on 《Lao-tze》from bamboo slips of chu chian at Kuo-tien, making a brief statement of the content about the bamboo slips of chu chian and then collating the chapters and sentences of 《Lao-tze》from bamboo slips of chu chian at Kuo-tien with those from modern edition of 《Lao-tze Tao-terh Ching》. (2) To make,according to the different editions and explanatory versions of 《Lao-tze Tao-terh Ching 》,an individual statement of each version as to the time for completing the book, the background, publishing and carving process, the writer’s name and brief experience and then to explain in detail the differences in each interpretation the Text. (3) To juxtapose the differences and similarities of each individual edition and explanatory version. (4) To compare and probe, according to the items compared the differences and similarities of each individual edition.