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爾雅 (Approaching Correctness)
Anonymous, composite · c. 221 BC - AD 9 · Chang'an (China) · other
The obscure vocabulary of the classics can be fixed and standardized by sorting it into nineteen topical categories, heaven, earth, plants, animals, kinship, making the dictionary itself an instrument of correct classical reading.
Descends from
- Book of Songs · c. 1000-600 BC (poems composed across the Western Zhou and early Spring and Autumn periods; reached near-final form by the 6th century BC)
Fed into
- Fangyan · c. 15 BC - AD 18 (compiled and revised across Yang Xiong's lifetime)
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