一切經音義 80.24

80.24

畺場 (The first character has the fanqie ju + liang. Zheng's commentary on the Zhouli says: "Jiāng means border." The Guliang zhuan says: "畺 is like a frontier." The Erya says: "A borderland." Guo's commentary says: "Jiāngchǎng is on the outer boundaries." The Shuowen says: "A boundary." It is composed of two 'field' [tián] characters with three division lines; it is both a pictograph and an ideograph. The second character has the fanqie chu + liang. The Zhouli says: "The chǎng-men manage the threshing grounds and vegetable plots of the state." The Mao commentary says: "In spring and summer it is a vegetable garden; in autumn and winter it is a threshing floor." Zheng's Subcommentary says: "The garden and threshing ground are the same land; when things sprout, vegetables are planted, and when crops are cleared, it is tamped down to make a threshing floor." The Guoyu says: "The positions of borders and trees, the places of altars and open grounds." Jia's commentary says: "Within the outer wall it is called an altar; in the open country it is called a chǎng." The Shuowen says: "A field for threshing grain." It takes the earth classifier with yáng as phonetic.)