一切經音義 59.27

59.27

Potter (陶師; also written 匋, both fanqie: 大 + 勞 [táo]; the Shiji says: "Pottery is earthenware"; the Cang Jie pian says: "Pottery is the maker of earthenware"; Shun first made pottery along the river bank, which exemplifies this; note that the soil in the Western Regions is mostly low-lying and damp, where kilns cannot be built, so they only stack the unbaked vessels and fire them in the open; it is also borrowed phonetically as 姚 [yáo]).