Chen Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Sun (rì) Page 492, Entry 05 Pronounced xi. According to the Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters (Shuowen Jiezi): Written as a character representing dried meat. Formed from residual meat, which is dried under the sun. Similar in meaning to the sacrificial stand (zu). The Comprehensive Compendium of Characters (Leipian) states: The cursive form is written as the current form. The Five Classics Text (Wujing Wenzi) states: Later generations considered this the character for ancient times (gu xi). I Ching, Commentary on the Trigrams: In the past (xi), when the sages created the I Ching. Sub-commentary: Referring to the distant past from the present is called the past (xi). Book of Odes (Shijing), Shang Ode: From ancient times, the former people began their work. Book of Rites (Liji), Qu Li: One must follow the ancient past and refer to the former kings. Also, Book of Odes (Shijing), Chen Ode: Who was like this in the past? Commentary: Past (xi) means long ago. Sub-commentary: The past (xi) refers to events from long ago. Also, Book of Rites (Liji), Tan Gong: On the night before last. Annotation: It means before. Also, Broadened Elegantia (Boya): Past (xi) means night. Zuo Tradition (Zuozhuan), Fourth Year of Duke Ai: For a period of one night. Zhuangzi, Tian Yun Chapter: Then I did not sleep for the whole night. Also a surname. Broadened Rhymes (Guangyun): During the Han dynasty, there was a magistrate of Wushang named Xi Deng. Also, Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced cuo. Meaning rough. Rites of Zhou (Zhouli), Winter Officials, Artificer's Record, Bow Maker: The horns of an old ox are twisted and rough (xi). Annotation: Read xi as the character for crossed or interwoven (cuo), meaning the texture of the ox horn is rough and tangled. Also, Rhyme Supplements (Yunbu): Rhymes with the syllable yue. Zuo Si, Poems on History: When they have not yet met their opportunity, their worries fill the gullies. Heroes encounter setbacks; this has been so since ancient times. Textual Research: In Zuo Si's Poems on History, the phrase regarding worries filling the gullies has been corrected to match the original poem. In the Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters (Shuowen Jiezi), the character is the original form of xi. The archaic seal script adds the meat radical to form the character for dried meat (la). The Collection of Characters (Zihui) considers this the ancient form of the character xi, which is incorrect. The character la originally derived from this form.