Wei Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Meat (ròu) Kangxi Strokes: 13 Page 984, Entry 08 Pronounced xiu (level tone). Shuowen Jiezi (Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters): Refers to dried meat. Zhengzitong (Comprehensive Dictionary of Characters): Refers to meat strips; meat that has been cut and dried. Shiming (Explanations of Names): Refers to shrinking. When dried meat or preserved meat dries, it shrinks. Book of Rites (Zhouli), Section: Heavenly Officials, Official: The Provisions Officer: All provisions of dried meat are under his management. Commentary: Xiu refers to dried meat. Also, Section: Inner Kitchen: All provisions of delicacies, dried meat, dried fish, fat, bones, and dried seafood used to prepare meals are under his management. Commentary: Xiu is pounded dried meat. Zuo Tradition (Zuozhuan), 24th Year of Duke Zhuang: Gifts presented by a woman when first meeting her elders consist of no more than hazelnuts, chestnuts, dates, and dried meat. Commentary: Xiu refers to dried meat. Shuowen (Classic of Explanations): Pounded dried meat seasoned with ginger and cinnamon is called xiu. Also refers to governing, repairing, or studying. Book of Documents (Shujing), Section: Instructions of Yue: You must frequently come to govern and instruct me. Sub-commentary: It means to have him come alternately to cultivate himself. Book of Odes (Shijing), Greater Odes: Properly maintain your carriages and horses. Book of Rites (Liji), Section: Evolution of Rites: Emphasize sincerity, cultivate harmonious relationships. Also, according to Yunhui (Collection of Rhymes), refers to long. Book of Odes (Shijing), Lesser Odes: The four horses of the lord are long and large. Commentary: Xiu means long. Also, in Greater Odes: Very long and very large. Qu Yuan, Li Sao: The road is long and distant, and I will ascend and descend to seek and explore. Commentary: Long. Also refers to cleaning or sweeping. Book of Rites (Zhouli), Section: Heavenly Officials: Manage the oaths and warnings of the hundred officials, and related preparations and cleaning. Commentary: Xiu refers to clearing away filth and sweeping. Book of Rites (Liji), Section: Meaning of Sacrifices: The palace rooms are already repaired and swept. Commentary: Xiu refers to setting things up, meaning to clear and decorate. Also refers to preparing or being equipped. Discourses of Zhou (Zhouyu): Prepare their fu and gui vessels. Commentary: Prepared. Also refers to long duration. Book of Rites (Zhouli), Section: Winter Officials, Artificers Record, The Bow-maker: If the materials at the bow eye are not mixed, then after the bow is used for a long time, the sinew will take the place of the wood in bearing the damage. Commentary: Xiu is like long duration. Also refers to caution or warning. Discourses of Lu (Luyu): I hope you will warn me morning and evening. Commentary: Jing, meaning to warn or caution. Also refers to dry. Book of Odes (Shijing), Odes of Wang: In the valley grows the motherwort, already withered and dry. Commentary: Xiu means about to dry out. Also, Erya (Approaching Elegance), Section: Explanations of Music: Striking a bell alone is called xiu. Also a type of grass. Classic of Mountains and Seas (Shanhaijing): On Jiaochao Mountain, there is much dragon-whisker grass. Commentary: Guo Pu says: It is dragon-whisker. It resembles wan grass but is finer, growing in mountain stone crevices. Also a type of fish. Classic of Mountains and Seas (Shanhaijing): Tuo Mountain is where the Tuo River originates, and the water contains many xiu-pi fish. Also a surname. Yunhui (Collection of Rhymes): During the Han Dynasty, there was a Commandant of the Tunjin cavalry named Xiu Bing. Also a personal name. Qu Yuan, Li Sao: I asked Jian Xiu to act as a matchmaker. Commentary: Jian Xiu was a minister of Fuxi. Also, Zheng韻 (Zhengyun): Pronounced you. Book of Rites (Zhouli), Section: Spring Officials, The Sacrificial Wine Officer: Used in ancestral temple sacrifices. Commentary: Xiu is the name of a vessel, a lacquer wine jar. Zheng Kangcheng says: Xiu is read as you. Also, Jiyun (Collection of Rhymes): Pronounced tiao. The name of a county in Xindu. It was the fief of Zhou Yafu. Sequel to the Table of Favored Marquises in the Former Han (Qianhan Enzehou Biaoxu): When Emperor Xiao Jing was about to enfeoff the Wang family as marquises, Marquis Xiu (Zhou Yafu) offended the Emperor's countenance. Commentary: Xiu is read as tiao. Also, Leipian (Categorized Chapters): Pronounced xiao. Xiu-xiu describes the state of tattered feathers. Zhengzitong (Comprehensive Dictionary of Characters): In the Shuowen, xiu refers to dried meat, while xiu (repair) refers to adorning. They were divided into two characters. Currently, xiu (dried meat) and xiu (repair) are used interchangeably. Textual Research: Refers to the note "Jing" (caution). In the Discourses of Lu (Luyu), "I hope you will warn me morning and evening," the commentary defines it as "caution." It is noted that the two instances of "jing" (respect) should be corrected to "jing" (caution/warn).