查贵刊三期所载《文义之间》一文中说:“文言的文义之间,必须注意的是与现代普通话不同的情况,因而有两种情况,由于不容易出错,我们就可以看作无关紧要。……一种是古今词义没有变化的,如‘水’‘火’‘嫁’‘娶’‘红’‘黄’之类,既然词义没有变化,望文生义也就可以通行无阻了”(着重点系我所加) 这里面把“红”字算作古今词义没有变化的词,我是不能苟同的。理由有二: 古文的“红”和现代汉语的“红”虽然都可表示颜色,但所指颜色的轻重不同。古汉语的“红”专指粉红、浅红、桃红;现代汉语的“红”可以泛指一切红颜色。再说清楚一点,古汉语的“红”字的概念的外延小,现代汉语的“红”字外延大。在古汉语中,表示今天所说的“红”的概念的字,是“赤”、“丹”、“朱”;只是在唐朝以后,有时才用红泛指一般的红颜色。所以,古代以至近代,把红旗叫“赤旗”“赤帜”,把红心叫“赤心” In the article between the “Wenyi and Yiyi” contained in the third issue of the Journal, “The difference between the culture and the meaning of the classical language must be different from that of modern Mandarin. Therefore, there are two situations. Since it is not easy to make mistakes, we can Seen as irrelevant.... One is that the meaning of ancient and modern words has not changed, such as ’water’, ’fire’, ’married’, ’red’, ’red’, ’yellow’, etc. Since the meaning of the word has not changed, the meaning of the word can also be unimpeded. “The focus is on what I have added.” The word “red” is used as a word with no change in the meaning of ancient and modern words. I cannot agree with this. There are two reasons: Although both the “red” of the ancient Chinese and the “red” of the modern Chinese can represent colors, the colors are different. The “red” in ancient Chinese specifically refers to pink, light red and pink; the “red” in modern Chinese can refer to all red colors. To put it more clearly, the concept of “red” in ancient Chinese has a small extension, and the word “red” in modern Chinese has a large extension. In ancient Chinese, the words that express the concept of “red” today are “Red”, “Dan”, and “Zhu”; only after the Tang Dynasty, red is used to refer to the general red color. Therefore, in ancient and modern times, the red flag was called “red flag” and “red flag”, and the red heart was called “red heart”.