Yiwen Leiju
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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.
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Yiwen Leiju | |||||||
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Traditional Chinese | 藝文類聚 | ||||||
Simplified Chinese | 艺文类聚 | ||||||
Literal meaning | Collection of Literature Arranged by Categories | ||||||
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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]