刘基在小学领域,也颇有些建树,特别是训诂学上成就更大,散见于刘基散文中探求词源,说明词和事物命名的理据及谴词造句理据的“释名”,已具语源学特色。散文《菜窝说》用声训的方法,比较系统地探求了部分蔬菜的单名理据,大都可信。其他散文对复名的理据的探求更为可靠,其寻求理据的方式对我们目前的语言理据研究还有较高的价值。刘基的《春秋明经》揭示的《春秋》的句法修辞理据,也颇有自己的特色。 Liu Ji also made some achievements in the field of primary school. In particular, he has made even greater achievements in the study of Buddhism, and he has found “essays” for etymology, elucidation of etymology of nouns and things, and justification of sentences in Liu Ji’s prose Etymological characteristics. Prose “vegetable nest that” with the method of sound training, a more systematic exploration of some of the vegetables, a single justification, most credible. Other essays are more reliable in exploring the rationale of the duplicate name, and the way of seeking motivation is of great value to our current study of language motivation. The syntactic and rhetorical motivation of “Spring and Autumn” revealed by Liu Ji’s “Chun Qiu Ming Jing” also has its own characteristics.