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Xu Shen (c. 58 – c. 148 CE) was a Chinese calligrapher, philologist, politician, and writer of the Eastern Han dynasty (25–189 CE). [1] During his own lifetime, Xu was recognized as a preeminent scholar of the Five Classics . [ 2 ]
The Shuowen Jiezi is a Chinese dictionary compiled by Xu Shen c. 100 CE, during the Eastern Han dynasty (25–220 CE). While prefigured by earlier reference works for Chinese characters like the Erya (c. 3rd century BCE), the Shuowen Jiezi contains the first comprehensive analysis of characters in terms of their structure, where Xu attempted to provide rationales for their construction.
According to the China Movie Data Information Network, the film took 81.60 million yuan ($12.6 million) on its opening day, and 44.2 million yuan the next day. The film earned a total of 300 million yuan ($46.32 million) in its first four days of release.
Co-founded by the dramatists and media entrepreneurs Ren Jinping, Zhang Shichuan, Zheng Zhegu, Zheng Zhengqiu, and Zhou Jianyun, [2] Mingxing had its first theatrical releases – a double feature of the short comedies The King of Comedy Visits Shanghai and Labourer's Love – at the Olympic Theatre on 7 October 1922. [3]
Xu Shen's Shuowen Jiezi (121 CE) defines wangliang (魍魎): [30] "It is a spectral creature of mountains and rivers. The King of Huainan says, 'The appearance of the wangliang is like that of a three-year-old child, with a red-black color, red eyes, long ears, and beautiful hair.'"
The Shuowen Jiezi is a Chinese dictionary compiled c. 100 CE by Xu Shen. It divided characters into six categories (六書; liùshū) according to what he thought was the original method of their creation.
The first systematic study of the structure of Chinese characters was Xu Shen's Shuowen Jiezi (100 AD). [32] The Shuowen was mostly based on the small seal script standardized in the Qin dynasty. [33] Earlier characters from oracle bones and Zhou bronze inscriptions often reveal relationships that were obscured in later forms. [34]
Rén Human 所 suǒ PASS 歸 guī return 爲 wéi is 鬼 guǐ ghost 人 所 歸 爲 鬼 Rén suǒ guī wéi guǐ Human PASS return is ghost "A 'ghost' is what humans return to." The words for 'ghost' and 'return' are near-homophones both in Xu's reading and in modern Standard Chinese. A similar explanation of the word can be found in the earlier Erya (c. 3rd century BC). Shengxun can be highly ...