2. China's first big dictionary-Shuo Wen Jie Zi
Shuowen Jiezi, or Shuowen for short. The author is Xu Shen, a Confucian scholar and philologist in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Shuo Wen Jie Zi was written in the 12th year of Han Yongyuan (100) to the first year of Andy Jianguang (12 1).
Xu Shen founded 540 radicals according to the glyphs, and classified 9353 words into 540 parts. 540 parts were combined into 14 according to the shape system. According to this 14 category, the dictionary text is divided into 14 articles, with a title at the end of the volume and 15 articles in the whole book.
In the word formation method, the theory of "six books" is put forward, that is, pictographic, ideographic, knowing, pictophonetic characters, phonetic symbols and borrowed sounds. In Shuo Wen Jie Zi. Xu gave a comprehensive and authoritative explanation of Six Books. Since then, "Six Books" has become a specialized knowledge.
Xu Shen was born in Zhaoling, Runan (now Yancheng, Henan).