Yin Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Long Walk (yìn) Kangxi Strokes: 7 Page 352, Entry 30 Pronounced yan (rising tone). Shuowen Jiezi (Explaining Simple and Analyzing Compound Characters): To walk at length. Guangyun (Broad Rhymes): To advance. Book of Rites (Liji), Meaning of Shooting: Confucius had Zilu take the bow and arrows and go out to extend the invitation to shoot. Book of Etiquette and Ceremonial (Yili), Audience Ritual: The attendant beckoned him, saying ascend. Note: From behind, the protocol officer says, extend. Extend means to advance. Erya (Approaching Elegance), Explaining Ancient Words: Long. Fangyan (Local Dialects): Extend and eternal mean long. Anything applied to years is called extension, and anything applied to the long duration of the masses is called eternal. Ban Gu, Western Capital Rhapsody: Traversing the twelve generations of extended blessings. Guangyun: Distant. Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Biography of Meng Tian: Extending for more than ten thousand li. Erya, Explaining Ancient Words: To spread. Zheng Yun (Correct Rhymes): To accept. Book of Han (Hanshu), Biography of Gongsun Hong: Hong built a guest house and opened the eastern pavilion to receive worthy men. Jiyun (Collected Rhymes): To reach. Book of Documents (Shangshu), Counsels of the Great Yu: Rewards extend to the descendants. Guangyun: To tax, or to speak. Yunhui (Collection of Rhymes): To delay, the appearance of lingering for a long time. Zuo Tradition (Zuo Zhuan), Fourteenth Year of Duke Xiang: The people of Jin called it the campaign of delay. Note: Delay means to retreat. Zhang Heng, Western Capital Rhapsody: Lingering and glancing sideways. Note: Li Shan says: Delaying means to draw back the body. Coiling is called undulating. Yang Xiong, Sweet Spring Rhapsody: Floating the emerald aura of the undulation. Note: Undulating means the appearance of long and curved. Erya, Explaining Ancient Words: A passage. Note: Refers to a passage. Currently referred to as a tomb path. Zuo Tradition, First Year of Duke Yin: Tunneling to meet each other. Note: Tunnel is like the passage of today. Yunhui: Name of a prefecture. It was Gao Nu County during the Han Dynasty, and Yan Prefecture was established during the Later Wei. Name of a place. Zuo Tradition, First Year of Duke Yin: Arriving at Lin Yan. Note: Lin Yan is a city of the Zheng state. There is a Yan Ford north of Liu Suanzao County. Zuo Tradition, Twenty-Seventh Year of Duke Zhao: The Yan Zhou Lai Ji Zi visited the upper state. Note: Ji Zi was originally enfeoffed at Yanling, and later re-enfeoffed at Zhou Lai, therefore he is called Yan Zhou Lai. Book of Han, Treatise on Geography: There is a Juyan County in Zhangye Commandery. Note: Juyan Lake is in the northeast; in ancient texts, it is considered the shifting sands. Surname. Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Biography of Yan Du: Du was a man from Nanyang who served as the Governor of Jingzhao. Jiyun: Pronounced yan (third tone). The cover on a ceremonial cap. Book of Rites, Jade Ornaments: The Son of Heaven has twelve pendants of jade, both front and back hanging down deep and long. Jiyun: Sometimes written in a variant form (xian). Guangyun: Pronounced xian. Jiyun: To reach. Zhang Heng, Western Capital Rhapsody: Heavy chambers and secluded doors, connecting and extending to one another. Looking into the distance, it is vast and one does not know how to return. Note: Extension refers to being mutually connected and accessible.