Characteristics of Dunhuang Manuscript Literatures

The ancient literature can be divided into two major categories: the written literature and the engraved literature. With the wide application of printing, the literature has become the main body of the handed down literature. Once the ancient books were published, they were incarnate for thousands of times, which not only promoted the popularization of books, but also gradually formalized the contents of ancient books. The writing of this document is from a single individual. Many of the original texts are originally for self-use. The authors have no prepared mental preparations. Even those ancient books passed down by the predecessors, people often follow their own in the process of copying. Understanding the changes and changes, so that the shape, content, words, and words of the ancient books will change more or less, will bring the brand of the times and the personal copy. Therefore, the form and content of the written literature often lacks stereotypes, and presents different characteristics. We cannot measure them with the concepts of the well-known stereotypes we are familiar with. The Dunhuang literature is mainly written in the same book, and it also has the characteristics of writing this document; even those small inscriptions, because of its early stage of engraving, the limited scope of communication, the stereotype of content is still not talked about. Therefore, understanding and recognizing the characteristics of Dunhuang literature is the most basic part of correctly organizing Dunhuang literature. Specifically, the characteristics of the Dunhuang literature are mainly reflected in seven aspects: the volume is uncertain, the symbol is uncertain, the words are indeterminate, the words are indefinite, the text is misleading, the clumps are mixed, and the back is miscellaneous. The following are discussed separately.