Abstract: The paper describes a computer system of understanding ancient Chinese (SUACH), using two stories written in ancient Chinese as experimental material. The system can make syntactic and semantic analysis of every sentence contained in the two stories and translate them into modern Chinese. It also has the ability to answer questions about the syntactical function and meaning of certain words used in different contexts.Unlike Western languages, the Chinese language has no declensions. For instance, one cannot determine the case of a noun or the tense of a verb according to the morphology of Chinese characters. Neither does Chinese grammar contain adequate rules governing inflections. A tentative plan for the programming of ancient Chinese is presented and discussed in this paper and offered as an aid to students of ancient Chinese.

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