1, Erya, as the earliest compilation of exegetics in ancient China, its style and exegetical methods have had a far-reaching impact on exegetics and lexicography in China. Modern ancient Chinese dictionaries and dialect dictionaries still embody their compiling purposes: "explaining ancient and modern foreign words" and "explaining local and local foreign words", that is, explaining ancient words in modern languages and dialects in common sayings. This compiling purpose reflects people's most common and basic demand for dictionaries.
2. Erya is a compilation of exegetical materials in the pre-Qin period (added in the Western Han Dynasty), and its arrangement style adopts classification-the characters are divided into two categories, the major categories are subdivided into sub-categories, and some sub-categories are subdivided into sub-headings, which is very orderly and easy to find. This method of classification and organization has been used to this day. The exegetical words in Erya adopt the arrangement system of first word (interpretation, interpretation) and then complex word (interpretation).
3. "Erya" interprets words in the form of righteousness. Righteous training is to directly explain the meaning of words with their actual meaning in the language, and to explain classical Chinese, ancient Chinese or dialect proverbs with common language and common language. This is also a common way to explain words in ancient books and dictionaries later.
Erya also uses * * * names to explain aliases, and scientific names to explain the exegetical methods of common names. Er Ya explains words, compound words, four-character idioms and difficult sentences in ancient books. Most idioms and sentences come from The Book of Songs. Chinese dictionaries list idioms as entries, which also started from Erya.