Er Ya and Shuo Wen Jie Zi are ancient dictionaries, right?

Erya is the ancestor of dictionaries. Collected a relatively rich vocabulary of ancient Chinese. It is not only the ancestor of dictionaries, but also one of China's classical works-Classic and Thirteen Classics, which is the core component of China's traditional culture.

Erya is the first known dictionary. Er means "near" (later written as "near"), and Ya means "positive", which means "elegant character" here, that is, a standard language that conforms to the norms in pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar. Erya means approaching and conforming to elegance, that is, explaining the elegance of archaic words and dialect words to make them close to norms.

Shuowen Jiezi is short for Shuowen. The writer is Xu Shen. It is the first dictionary in China to systematically analyze the forms and sources of Chinese characters, and it is also one of the earliest dictionaries in the world. When editing, the "Six Books" were explained in detail for the first time.

Shuowen Jiezi is the first Chinese dictionary arranged by radicals. The original book was written in the 12th year of Han Yongyuan (100) to the first year of Andy Jianguang (12 1), but it has been lost. Up to now, most of them are the Song version or the annotated version of Duan Yucai in Qing Dynasty. The original text is Xiao Zhuan, which explains the source of the font word for word. The book is divided into 540 radicals, with 9353 words, and there are 1 163 words (that is, variants). * * * 105 16. Shuowen Jiezi is the foundation work of scientific philology and philology, and it has an extremely important position in the history of Chinese linguistics.