汉语从商代有文字记载以来,迄今已有三四千年之久,随着社会的发展,汉语也在不断发展。历代书籍流传至今,其卷帙之多可以说盈千累万,这都是研究汉语历史的珍贵材料。前人利用古籍研究汉语历史还很不够。自宋代以至清代学者所重视的大都在于古声韵的探讨,对于词汇和语法的研究则很少建树,直到近些年来语法的研究颇有进展,而词汇方面尚较迟缓。其所以如此,原因甚多。一方面由于词汇本身非常繁富,历代所 Since the Shang dynasty was written in Chinese, so far it has been three or four thousand years old. With the development of the society, Chinese has been developing continuously. All the books in history have been handed down so far, and their volumes can be said to have surpassed thousands of millions. All these are precious materials for studying Chinese history. It is still not enough for our predecessors to study Chinese history using ancient books. Since Song dynasty and even in Qing dynasty scholars have paid much attention to the study of ancient rhyme and rhyme. However, few studies on vocabulary and grammar have been made. Until recent years, the study of grammar has made some progress and the vocabulary has been slow. So, for many reasons. On the one hand because of the vocabulary itself is very rich, history