Email this article A Tangut Primary Reader. A Brief Collection by Taizong Kept at the IOM, RAS
- Authors: Hongyin N.1
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Affiliations:
- Sichuan Normal University
- Issue: Vol 18, No 2 (2021)
- Pages: 80-113
- Section: History and historiography
- URL: https://journals.eco-vector.com/1811-8062/article/view/72175
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.17816/WMO72175
- ID: 72175
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The previously undeciphered manuscript inv. No. 5875 preserved at the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, Russian Academy of Sciences, proves to be a Tangut version of a primary reader. Its Chinese original is an inconsistently miscellaneous compilation of ancient literary allusions and contemporary folk maxims. The text combines the two distinct literary styles of antithetical couplet and ordinary prose and has no easily defined subject. Although its Chinese original has not been found yet, and the whole text has not been thoroughly deciphered so far, the present article offers a tentative translation of some of its stories in order to lay a foundation for further studies.
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Nie Hongyin
Sichuan Normal University
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Email: nhy54116@sina.com
Professor, Faculty of Chinese language and Literature
China, No. 5 Jing’an Road, Chengdu, P.RReferences
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