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1. The Prototype of Ancient Character Books: Literacy Textbooks in the Zhou, Qin, and Han Dynasties.

2. The Emergence of Ancient Character Books.

1 "Erya" – the first dictionary of ancient teachings.

2 Dialects—The first dictionary of dialects.

3 Shuowen Jie Zi – The First Dictionary.

4 "Interpretation of Names" - the first dictionary of voice training.

3. The Evolution of Ancient Character Books.

1 "Jade Chapter" - the first regular script dictionary.

2 "The Meaning of All Sutras" - a dictionary that explains the phonetic meaning of Buddhist texts.

3 "Guangyun" - the first complete rhyme book in existence.

4. The prosperity of ancient calligraphy.

1 Vocabulary – The first easy-to-read dictionary.

2 Kangxi Dictionary - The Stereotype of Ancient Dictionaries.

3 "Pei Wen Yun Fu" - a collection of ancient poems and songs.

4 "The Compilation of Scriptures" - a collection of quotations and exegesis from the history of the scriptures.

5 "Commentary on the Scriptures" - A collection of interpretations of the Hypothetical Words of the Scriptures.

5. The evolution and innovation of modern dictionaries.

1 The Great Chinese Dictionary - The Jinliang of the Old and New Dictionaries.

2 Etymology – the first large-scale comprehensive Chinese dictionary.

3 Cihai - a collection of words and encyclopedic words.

4 Chinese Dictionary - the forerunner of the phonetic and phonetic arrangement method.

5 "Interpretation of Poems, Songs, and Words" - a collection of special words in the poetry dictionary.

6 Comprehensive English Dictionary - The expansion of a new field of lexicography.

1 "Erya" – the first dictionary of ancient teachings.

2 Dialects—The first dictionary of dialects.

3 Shuowen Jie Zi – The First Dictionary.

4 "Interpretation of Names" - the first dictionary of voice training.

3. The Evolution of Ancient Character Books.

1 "Jade Chapter" - the first regular script dictionary.

2 "The Meaning of All Sutras" - a dictionary that explains the phonetic meaning of Buddhist texts.

3 "Guangyun" - the first complete rhyme book in existence.

It is a scholar and philologist of the Eastern Han Dynasty: Xu Shen wrote "Shuowen Jie Zi".

The earliest word return or dictionary in China is "Shuowen Jie Zi".

Compiled by Xu Shen in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Shuowen Jie Zi is the earliest dictionary in China, which took more than ten years to compile, and its purpose is to popularize Chinese character culture by explaining and annotating the origin, meaning and usage of Chinese characters, and to promote the standardization of characters, laying the foundation for later research on Chinese characters. It is known as "the world's first book of frank evil".

When compiling this monumental work, Xu Shen advocated the method of "Shuowen", that is, to explain and annotate in detail the origin, old meaning, new meaning, polyphony, and usage of each Chinese character, so that readers can understand the origin, evolution and cultural background of Chinese characters. He attaches great importance to the collection and sorting of ancient books, and selects a large number of ancient books and documents, such as "Erya", "Mao's Poems", "Zhou Yi", etc., and also synthesizes and sorts out various ancient patterns in order to obtain their true meanings.

The influence of "Shuo Wen Jie Zi".

First, Shuowen Jie Zi distinguishes the radicals and radicals from tens of thousands of Chinese characters, classifies and summarizes them into 540 sections, and opens up the Chinese character dictionary arrangement method of arranging Chinese characters according to radicals. The Chinese dictionaries and dictionaries used until today are still arranged using radical checking.

Second, "Shuowen Jie Zi" for the first time expounded the content of the "Six Books" in the content of the explanation, running through the principles of the Six Books, Xu Shen defined the Six Books respectively, and gave examples of words, and later generations used Xu Shen's name and definition in the Six Books.

Third, "Shuowen Jiezi" includes a variety of writing methods of Chinese characters, and in addition to the seal body of the Han Dynasty at that time, there were also different writing methods such as 籀文 and ancient Chinese. Most of these fonts are pictographic. This provides valuable paleographic materials for the study of Chinese characters, and also provides greater convenience for the study of the original meaning of ancient characters.

Fourth, the book "Shuowen Jie Zi" preserves a large number of ancient sound materials, which is of great value for the study of the history of Chinese phonetics, especially the study of ancient sounds.

The above content refers to the Chinese-Shuowen Interpretation of Characters.

The first dictionary in my country is "Shuowen Jie Zi".

Shuowen Jie Zi, referred to as Shuowen, is a language reference book compiled by Xu Shen, a scholar and philologist of the Eastern Han Dynasty. The original book was written from the twelfth year of Emperor Yongyuan of the Han Dynasty (100 years) to the first year of Emperor Jianguang of An Emperor (121 years). Shuowen Jie Zi is one of the earliest Chinese dictionaries in China that systematically analyzes the glyphs of Chinese characters and examines the origin of characters, and it is also one of the earliest dictionaries in the world.

Shuowen Jie Zi is the earliest Chinese dictionary arranged by radicals. The book is divided into 540 radicals, 9,353 characters, and 1,163 "heavy texts" (i.e., variant characters), with a total of 10,516 characters.

Title of the book**

The name of "Shuowen Jiezi" includes two meanings: one is "Shuowen", the other is "Jiezi", "Wen" and "Word" are not the same concept, Xu Shen's explanation of this is: when Cangjie began to make words, he probably copied according to the shape of all things, so this kind of pictorial symbol is called "Wen", and after that, the symbol that combines shape and shape, shape and sound is called "word".

"Wen" is to describe the original shape of things, and the meaning of "word" is to breed and reproduce.

Before the Qin Dynasty, characters were only called "Wen" or "Shu", not "characters", and "Wen" and "Zi" reflected two stages in the development of Chinese characters, namely the stage of pictorial symbols and the stage of conceptual symbols.

Paleographers call the single character "Wen", and the combined character is called "Zi", and the independent "Wen" can no longer be decomposed, so it is explained, that is, the meaning of "Shuowen"; The combined "word" is composed of two or three different "texts", so it is dissected, that is, the meaning of "interpreting the word", and the above two meanings are combined to make the meaning of the name of "Shuowen Jiezi".

"Erya" is the earliest dictionary in China.

Erya is a literary work of dictionaries, which was first included in the Hanshu Art and Literature Chronicles, but does not contain the author's name. The work collects a relatively rich vocabulary of ancient Chinese. It is not only the ancestor of dictionaries, but also a canon, which is included in the "Thirteen Classics".

It is the core component of Han traditional culture. "Er" means "near" (later written as "迩"), and "ya" means "zheng", which here refers specifically to "Yayan", that is, a standard language that conforms to the norms in terms of phonetics, vocabulary and grammar.

The meaning of "Erya" is to be close to and conform to Yayan, that is, to explain ancient Chinese words and dialect words in Yazheng language, so as to make them close to the norm.

When "Erya" was written

Erya was written between the Warring States period or the Han Dynasty, and the upper limit would not be earlier than the Warring States period, because some of the materials used in the book came from books such as "Chu Ci", "Zhuangzi", and "Lü's Spring and Autumn", and these books were written after the Warring States period. Some of the animals mentioned in the book are suān ní (one of the nine sons of the dragon, shaped like a lion).

According to research, it is not something that can be seen before the Warring States. It is also believed that the lower limit of the writing of "Erya" will not be later than that of the Western Han Dynasty, because the doctor of "Erya" had been set up during the time of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, and the "Erya Note" of Qianwei literature had already appeared by the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.