北京大学中文系,最近请文字学家、故宫博物院研究员唐兰讲文字学专题课。唐兰在讲座中对我国文字的起源、结构和旧“六书”说,提出不少新的看法和解释。例如,他认为甲骨文不是我国最早的文字。他说,从地下发掘的彩陶上的图画文字来看,我国文字早在距今五千年以前的夏代就产生了。他认为,文字只有在阶级社会的条件下才能创造 Department of Chinese, Peking University, recently invited a philologist, Tang Lan, a researcher at the National Palace Museum, Ph.D. In his lecture, Tang Lan put forward many new ideas and explanations on the origin, structure and old “Six Books” of Chinese characters. For example, he did not think Oracle was the earliest language in my country. He said that according to the pictorial images on painted pottery excavated in the underground, Chinese characters were produced as early as the Xia dynasty five thousand years ago. He believes that writing can only be created under the conditions of a class society