Zhang Feng

Zhang Feng

Zhang Feng (1887-1966) was born in Jiashan, Zhejiang Province. In 1904, a scholar of the Qing Dynasty, he joined the Restoration Society on the eve of the revolution of 1911, and taught at Zhejiang First Normal University in 1917.

Profile

Zhang Feng is highly appreciated by Ma Xulun, director of the Provincial Department of education. In the 11th year of the Republic of China, he studied in France at public expense. In the 13th year of the Republic of China, he received a doctor's degree in literature from the University of Paris. He was an amateur in Archaeology and often went to the Cluny Museum. At the same time, he was an archaeology student at the Louvre Museum. He assisted the British professor and sinologist marborough studying in France to compile the bamboo slips of the western regions obtained by Stein, and published the collection of wooden slips in the western regions of the Han and Jin Dynasties. In the 15th year of the Republic of China, he served as Professor, Dean of academic affairs, director of the Department of social history, acting Dean of the College of Arts and librarian of national Jinan University. In the 24th year of the Republic of China, he participated in the investigation of ancient cultural sites in Yancheng, Changzhou and qijiadun, Jinshanwei, Shanghai. In the 28th year of the Republic of China, he served as the president of the Tianmu Academy in Western Zhejiang and set up a cultural relics exhibition room to display the Neolithic and Song Dynasty Tianmu kiln relics excavated from the Tianmu Mountain area. Editor in chief of the semimonthly Journal of literature and history, he was employed as a member of the Preparatory Committee of Shanghai Museum in the 34th year of the Republic of China. After liberation, he successively served as the Standing Committee member of Zhejiang Archaeology Society and the librarian of Zhejiang culture and history museum. Besides the rare ancient books, there are also fossils, stone tools, pottery, porcelain, jade and so on.

innovate

In 1925, Zhang Feng returned to China via Siberia via the Soviet Union. After returning home, Zhang Feng was interested in compiling dictionaries. Invented the "shape and number checking method", that is, the so-called "dot line". The formula is "dot and line, check according to the number". In 1926, Zhang Feng dictionary was published. Later, it was improved again and again. Instead of imitating Kangxi dictionary at that time, it abandoned the common radicals and replaced them with face, line and dot. At that time, Zhang Feng once cried out: "down with Kangxi dictionary! Complete the dictionary revolution! Zhang Feng can be killed, and the method is immortal!" nearly two years earlier than the "four corner number" method proposed by Mr. Wang Yunwu, so Wang's "four corner number" may have been influenced by him.

work

He is proficient in the study of ancient Chinese characters, such as oracle bones. He is good at writing inscriptions on bronze, likes seal cutting, and is good at identification. He has compiled Tianmu yinpu, and has written examples of image and character names, collected manuscripts on Chi Shang, Zhang Feng dictionary, Fei Fei Shi Ji, etc.