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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.
The Han-era Shuowen Jiezi dictionary (c. 100 CE) credits sometimes traditionally identified with a group of characters from the Shizhoupian (c. 800 BCE), preserved by their inclusion within the Shuowen Jiezi. Xu Shen, the latter text's author, included the variants differing from the structures of small seal script, and labelled the examples as ...
The Shuowen Jiezi is a character dictionary authored c. 100 CE by the scholar Xu Shen. In its postface, Xu analyses what he sees as all the methods by which characters are created. Later authors iterated upon Xu's analysis, developing a categorization scheme known as the 'six writings' (六书; 六書; liùshū), which identifies every ...
The Shuowen Jiezi dictionary created by Xu Shen uses 540 radicals to index its characters. [1] List. Volume Radicals 1 (Introduction) 2
Yanjun Xu, also known as Qu Hui and Zhang Hui, a Deputy Division Director for China's Ministry of State Security (MSS), was convicted of espionage and theft of trade secrets related offenses in 2021 and sentenced to 20 years in prison. Xu is the first Chinese intelligence officer ever to be captured and extradited to the United States for trial ...
The first Chinese dictionary of characters, Xu Shen's c. 121 CE Shuowen jiezi, provides a representative set of ancient Han dynasty "wine vessel" names. Zhī (卮 or 巵) is defined as "a round vessel (圜器), also called dàn , used to regulate drinking and eating (節飲食)", which is a classical allusion to the Yijing (27).
Zhenren (Chinese: 真人; pinyin: zhēnrén; Wade–Giles: chen-jen; lit. 'true/ upright/ genuine person' or 'person of truth') is a Chinese term that first appeared in the Zhuangzi meaning "a Taoist spiritual master" in those writings, as in one who has mastered realization of the Tao.