續一切經音義 10.45

10.45

Schools (庠序: the first character is [pronounced with the fanqie] si + yang; the Liji says: "The Youyu clan nourished the state elders in the Higher Xiang and the common elders in the Lower Xiang"; the Higher Xiang was the Great Learning and the Lower Xiang was the Minor Learning; the Shuowen says it is formed from roof [广] with the abbreviated form of xiang [詳] as phonetic; the second character is [pronounced with the fanqie] xu + ju; the Yupian says it means the schools of the Eastern Xu and Western Xu; the Erya says: "The eastern and western walls are called xu"; Guo's commentary says: "They serve to order and distinguish inside from outside").