ChatGPT's proficiency in handling modern standard languages suggests potential for its use in understanding ancient Chinese. This paper explores ChatGPT's capabilities on ancient Chinese via two tasks: translating ancient Chinese to modern Chinese and recognizing ancient Chinese names. A comparison of ChatGPT's output with human translations serves to evaluate its comprehension of ancient Chinese. The findings indicate that: (1.)the proficiency of ancient Chinese by ChatGPT is yet to reach a satisfactory level; (2.) ChatGPT performs the best on ancient-to-modern translation when feeding with three context sentences. To help reproduce our work, we display the python code snippets used in this study.

翻译：ChatGPT在处理现代标准语言方面的能力暗示其可能在理解古汉语方面具有潜力。本文通过两个任务探讨了ChatGPT在古汉语上的能力：将古汉语翻译为现代汉语以及识别古汉语人名。通过将ChatGPT的输出与人工翻译进行对比，评估其对古汉语的理解程度。研究结果表明：（1）ChatGPT在古汉语方面的熟练程度尚未达到令人满意的水平；（2）当提供三个上下文句子时，ChatGPT在古译今任务中表现最佳。为便于复现本研究，我们展示了本研究所使用的Python代码片段。