On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v1.c5.18

v1.c5.18

apparently a reference to Ch. 6 of the "Chung-yung" where we read, in Legge's translation.—"Now, over the empire, carriages have all wheels of the same size: all writing is with the same characters; and for conduct there are the same rules." (Life and Teachings of Confucius p. 312.) So also of the uniformity which Ch'in Shih Huang Ti produced it was said Ch'ê-t'ung-kuci-shu-t'ung-wên-tzŭ (車同軌書同文字), "carriages went in the same ruts and books were in one writing" (Shih-chi ch. 6).