Erya in Han Dynasty was regarded as a Confucian classic, and it was included in the Confucian Classics Department when Tang Wenzong carved it into stone classics in his adulthood. It was listed as one of the thirteen classics in Song Dynasty.
Erya is not a classic, nor is it a vassal of the classic. This is an independent dictionary. With the help of this dictionary, we can read ancient books and learn ancient vocabulary. Erya is regarded as the pioneering work of China's exegetics, which has great influence on exegetics, phonology, etymology, dialectology and ancient philology.
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Erya contains more than 4,300 words, which are divided into 209 1 items. There are 20 articles in this book, and there are 9 articles/kloc-0. It is about the scholars during the Qin and Han Dynasties who edited and sorted out the old books and articles from all over the pre-Qin period and obtained them step by step.
The entries are classified into four categories: Shi, Shi, Xun, Shi Jia, Shi Gong, yuè, Tian, Di, Shan, Shui and Tian.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-erya