Xu Shen (AD 54- 149), born in Wanri, Zhaoling, Runan, Eastern Han Dynasty (now Xuzhuang, Jishi Township), was a famous scholar of Confucian classics, philology, exegetics and lexicology. His book Shuo Wen Jie Zi is the first Chinese dictionary in China that creates radicals, analyzes glyphs, studies ancient sounds and summarizes ancient meanings.