法苑珠林 14.44

English (machine translation) 14.44

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14.44

He further asked, "West of the Western Capital today there is a High Four-Earth Platform (Gaositai). Folk proverbs say it is the platform where Cangjie created writing. Why do you say clerical characters already existed in antiquity?" He answered, "Cangjie added earth to build a platform upon this platform; that he observed bird tracks is not without foundation. Moreover, regarding the traditions of Cangjie, this realm rarely knows their origin: some say he was an official of the Yellow Emperor, others that he was an ancient emperor. The script of bird tracks was merely a temporary change of path, which is completely extinct today. Words of no benefit need not be belaboured."

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法苑珠林 — 道世, Classical Chinese