Xu Xuan

Japanese: 徐鉉 - じょげん（英語表記）Xu Xuan

[Born] Sadaaki 2 (916)
[Died] Junka 2 (991)
Chinese Song scholar and poet. Born in Guangling, Yangzhou (Jiangsu Province). Court name: Dingchen. He served the Southern Tang Dynasty as a Hanlin Scholar, Chief Censor, and Minister of Personnel, and later came to the Song Dynasty to serve Emperor Taizong as a Zuo Sanqi Changshi. He and his brother Xu Kai were known as linguists, and together they were known as the "Ei Xu," and Da Xu was known as the other brother Xiao Xu. The so-called Da Xu edition, which was edited by imperial decree in the third year of Yongxi (986) at the beginning of the Northern Song Dynasty, has been regarded as the standard text for the Shuowen ever since. He was also skilled in poetry, and his collections of poetry are called Xu Gongwen Collection or Xu Shengqi Collection. He also wrote a collection of fantastic stories, such as Jishen Lu.

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Japanese:

[生]貞明2(916)
[没]淳化2(991)
中国，宋の学者，詩人。揚州広陵 (江蘇省) の人。字，鼎臣 (ていしん) 。南唐に仕え翰林学士，御史大夫，吏部尚書などを歴任，のち宋にくだって太宗に仕え，左散騎常侍となった。弟の徐かいとともに言語学者として知られ，合せて「二徐」，また弟の小徐に対し大徐と呼ばれる。北宋初めの雍煕3 (986) 年勅命により『説文解字』を校訂したいわゆる『大徐本』は，それ以後『説文』の標準テキストとされている。詩文にもすぐれ，その詩文集を『徐公文集』または『徐省騎集』という。ほかに伝奇小説集『稽神録』などがある。

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