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Exemplarious translation:
Classifier "wood", 4 additional strokes: "East" According to the dictionaries Tangyun and Zhengyun, read like D- and -ONG (dong), according to the Jiyun and Yunhui, read like D- and -ONG (dong) [...] The Shuowen jiezi writes, "East" dong is "moving" dong, the moving of the sun's breath that rises in spring. The Canon of Yao in the Book of Documents states: "He made a tour of inspection eastwards". The Commentary of Kong says, the years starts in the east, when the time has come to plough the fields. The chapter of astronomy in the Huainanzi says, the east corresponds to the element wood, its corresponding ruler is the mythical emperor Taihao. Further, the calendar treatise in the Shiji says, the sun rises in the east, the moon in the west. Zheng Qiao's Tongzhi says, the character for "east" is the picture of a sun in a tree [...]. Further, the Great Odes in the Book of Songs say, "Opening the light comes from the east". Further, the Erya Dictionary says, the east can be reached in the highest distance. Further, Dong is a surname. The Shengxianqun fulu ("Revised Records of the many Saints and Wises") says, Emperor Shun loved the east and never spoke badly of it. Another scholar gives the pronunciation as D- and -ING, like ding. The Minor Odes in the Book of Songs say, "[...] going from west to east". Another scholar gives the pronunciation as D- and -ANG, like dang. Note: The Shuowen jiezi takes "East" as an own classifier; here, it belongs to the classifier "Wood".
Translated by Ulrich Theobald.
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