Huang Kan (488 ~ 545), whose name is unknown, was born in Wujun, a Confucian scholar and scholar in Nanliang.
Huang Kan is the ninth grandson of Qingzhou secretariat. He used to be a teaching assistant in Guo Zi and an assistant minister who rode abroad. Huang Kan was less studious, and the Confucian title of being a teacher collapsed. Proficient in Confucian classics, especially the study of San Li, Xiao Jing and The Analects of Confucius. He has ten volumes of On Semantic Sparseness, which is slightly less than the traditional exegesis of chapters and sentences and the system of famous things, and mostly interprets the classics with the metaphysics of Laozi and Zhuangzi.
Huang Kan's On Semantic Sparseness died in the Southern Song Dynasty. Qing Qianlong brought it back from Japan and included it in the Siku Quanshu compiled at that time. In addition, there is an engraving in the Qing Dynasty's "Remittance Letter of Ancient Classics", which is the only one left in the Southern Dynasties.
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Japan found the oldest handwritten book "On Semantic Sparseness";
A research team composed of Keio University and other institutions in Japan recently said that an annotated manuscript of the Confucian classic The Analects was found in Japan. This handwritten book is believed to have come from China in the 6th-7th century. After it spread to Japan, it has been preserved in Japanese temples and homes. This is probably the oldest manuscript related to The Analects of Confucius.
According to a report in Japan's Asahi Shimbun on 26th, The Analects of Confucius is a collection of quotations compiled by Confucius' disciples and retranslators to record the words and deeds of Confucius and his disciples. On Semantic Sparse is the earliest book to annotate the Analects of Confucius with semantic sparseness, and it is also a masterpiece of interpreting the classics with semantic sparseness among the existing ancient classics. For experts in related fields, this book is an important historical material for studying the history of Sino-Japanese thought and communication, and has attracted wide attention.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Huang Kan