“典籍”一词现在已经司空见惯了,但这个词是什么时候出现,怎么出现的,其最初的含义是什么,则鲜有涉及。我们知道,古代汉语在先秦时期是以单字词为主的,而在那个时期中典籍这个词是极少出现的,只有在《孟子》与《左传》中它才偶然露面。所以要弄清楚这个词的来历,我们就不能不 The term “classic” is now commonplace, but when and how it appears, its original meaning is rarely touched upon. We know that ancient Chinese was predominantly single-word in the pre-Qin period, and the word classics rarely appeared during that period. Only in “Mencius” and “Zuo Zhuan” did it appear by chance. So to find out the origin of the word, we can not but