十 天干의 文字學的 考察

Abstract

This thesis aims for the literal study of ten heavenly stamps, which understood as a system of periodic, almanac and chronicle symbols in East Asia. The origin of these ten Chinese characters have not investigated until now exactly. The characters of ten heavenly stamps have two spacial examples in the usage in the Yin(殷) Dynasty. By the excavation of 甲骨文, which were carved on the armour and helmet of turtle and cattle's bone, we could know these characters were used as the name of ancestor kings. And also they were used as keeping the record of spacial days, something like sacrificial rites. The sixty 甲子 carved on the cattle's bone, was also excavated almost perfectly as same as the characters being used nowadays. On the usage of ancestor king's names, we can find that ten characters have the ordinal numeral sequence. and also they have the repeating circulations on their calendars. And also this thesis studies on the shape and meaning of each ten characters. we can find the historical progressing steps of the shape and form of characters. Such as, 甲骨文–金文–大篆–古文–小篆–今文. In the Han Dynasty Xu Shen(許愼)' Shuowenjiezi, in which, there are his spacial interpretation of ten heavenly stamps on the basis of the inter-acting principles of Yin & Yang and five primary elements. He interpreted of ten characters by the plant-living process in a year and the changing depth of sun light. And he also put the man's body's name from head(甲) to the foot(癸) step by step.