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Xu Shen, whose real name is Chongshu, was born in Zhaoling, Runan (now Xuzhuang Village, Jishi Town, Zhaoling District, Luohe City, Henan Province) in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and his nature was simple and heavy. Yongping nine years (66 years), Xu Shen into the primary school to learn six books. In the 11th year of Yongping (68 years), he began to study the classics extensively, studying poems, books, rites, changes, the Spring and Autumn Period and hundreds of works.

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Confucian classics

Shuowen Jiezi is Xu Shen's most painstaking work in his life, which took him half his life. Because of Xu Shen's immortal contribution to philology, later generations honored him as "the sage of words".

Because Xu Shen's Shuowen Jiezi is famous all over the world, people who study Shuowen Jiezi are praised as Jun, and Shuowen Jiezi is praised as Shu.

In addition to Shuowen Jiezi, Huainanzi Lie Hong Jiezi is stored in 24 volumes of China Library. There are also books such as the Five Classics, which have been lost today.

However, Xu Shen's Shuo Wen Jie Zi had been lost in the Tang Dynasty. Later generations of Xu Xuan and Xu Kai, as well as the version of Shuo Wen Jie Zi annotated by Duan Yucai, are their original versions.

On the issue of treating Confucian classics, Xu Shen insisted on the position of classical Chinese classics from beginning to end, and made outstanding contributions to the development of classical Chinese classics and the final victory over modern Chinese classics.

The Different Meanings of the Five Classics is his masterpiece, which corrects the confusion of the Five Classics, fully embodies its serious sense of the times, is widely quoted by later scholars and annotation scholars, and has a great influence on the development of later Confucian classics. ? [3]?

Xu Shen admired China's ancient classics and China's ancient classics. The literature he mentioned and quoted in Shuo Wen Jie Zi is mainly China's classical works. Moreover, he mentioned many times the experience of learning from Jia Kui, a famous scholar of ancient Chinese classics, and also mentioned that his masterpiece Shuowen Jiezi had been reviewed and guided by his teacher Jia Kui. When Xu Shen wrote Shuo Wen Jie Zi, he spared no effort to refute the disadvantages of Confucian classics explained by modern scholars from all aspects, and expounded his identity as an ancient scholar and his position on the study of ancient classics.