一切經音義 72.282

72.282

"Famine and scarcity (饑饉)" (the ancient script has 𩚮, identical; fan and zhi [jī] and qi and zhen [jǐn] in fanqie; the Erya states: "When grains do not ripen, it is jī; when greens do not ripen, it is jǐn—jǐn means green vegetables." Li Xun's commentary states: "Whenever edible greens all fail to ripen, it is called jǐn." Also, the Guliang Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals states: "When two kinds of grain do not yield, it is jī; when three do not yield, it is jǐn; when five do not yield, it is called a great famine [dàjī]." Yield [shēng] means to arise; to arise means to mature).