Yiwen Leiju

Chinese encyclopedia
Yiwen Leiju
Traditional Chinese藝文類聚
Simplified Chinese艺文类聚
Literal meaningCollection of Literature Arranged by Categories
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinYìwén Lèijù

The Yiwen Leiju is a Chinese leishu encyclopedia completed by Ouyang Xun in 624 under the Tang. Its other contributors included Linghu Defen and Chen Shuda.

It is divided into 47 sections and many subsections. It covers a vast number of subjects and contains many quotations from older works, which are well cited. Many of these older works are otherwise long lost,[1] so this is one of the sources used by Ming and Qing scholars to reconstruct the lost Record of the Seasons of Jingchu.[2]

References

  1. ^ Wilkinson, Chinese history: a manual, p. 603.
  2. ^ Theobald, Ulrich (2010), "Jing-Chu Suishi Ji", China Knowledge, Tübingen{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link).

External links

  • Ricci Library Catalog
  • Yiwen Leiju "Collection of Various Matters from Classics and other Literature" — Chinaknowledge.de.
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