Wei Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Silk (mì) Term: Zhong Kangxi stroke count: 11 Page 921, Entry 03 Ancient script variant is written as Sui. According to the Guangyun (Broad Rhymes), pronounced zhong. According to the Jiyun (Collected Rhymes) and the Yunhui (Collection of Rhymes), pronounced zhong. According to the Shuowen (Discussion of Writing), it refers to the gathered ends of silk thread. Also, according to the Yupian (Jade Chapters), it means the limit or to exhaust. According to the Jiyun, another meaning is to finish. Book of Changes (Yijing), Commentary on the Appended Statements: The book of Changes traces the origin and pursues the conclusion. Book of Documents (Shujing), Announcement of Zhong Hui: Be careful about the conclusion, and consider the beginning. Book of Odes (Shijing), Greater Odes: Illustrious and virtuous to the very end. Also, Book of Rites (Liji), Tangong: The death of a superior person is called a conclusion, the death of a petty person is called a death. Also, Zuo Tradition (Zuozhuan), First Year of Duke Wen: The correctness of the former kings depended on time. They started the calculation at the beginning, established the correct measure in the middle, and gathered the remainders at the end. Commentary: The remainder is gathered and placed at the end. This means the intercalary month is placed at the end. Also, Zuo Tradition (Zuozhuan), Ninth Year of Duke Xiang: Twelve years have passed, this is called one cycle, which is one full revolution of the star. Also, Er Ya (Approaching the Correct), Explaining the Heavens: When the moon is in the position of Ren, it is called Zhong. Also, History of the Former Han (Qian Hanshu), Treatise on Law: An area of one square li is a well, ten wells make a tong, ten tong make a cheng, a cheng is ten li square, and ten cheng make a zhong. Also a surname. Zuo Tradition (Zuozhuan), Fourth Year of Duke Ding: The seven clans of the Yin people include the Zhongkui clan. Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Annals of Qin: The ancestors of the Qin were of the Ying surname; later they were enfeoffed and took their state as their surname, including the Zhongli clan. History of the Former Han (Qian Hanshu), Biography of Zhong Jun: Zhong Jun, courtesy name Ziyun, was a man from Jinan. Also, in the Yunbu (Supplementary Rhymes), pronounced zheng. Book of Changes (Yijing), Kun, Commentary on the Words of the Text: To conclude and thus complete. Also, in the Yunbu (Supplementary Rhymes), pronounced zhang. Chen Lin, Rhapsody on Rosemary (Midiexiang Fu): Exhausting joy and celebration from morning until night, though obscured and hidden, it becomes even more manifest. Nothing rises without falling, and nothing has a beginning without an end.