Yiwen Leiju
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Yìwén Lèijù (Chinese: 藝文類聚, "Collection of Literature Arranged by Categories", or "Classics Anthology of Literary Works") is a Chinese Encyclopedia completed during the Tang Dynasty by the caligrapher Ouyang Xun (歐陽詢)
It was divided into 47 sections and many subsections. It covered all subjects and contains many quotations from older works, many long lost. It also cites its sources. (Wilkinson, Chinese history: a manual, p. 603.)
It was completed in AD 622 by Oūyáng Xún (歐陽詢 ). Other contributors were Linghu Defen (令狐德棻) and Chen Shuda (陳叔達).
