Xu’s Notes on Luo Lu Zi徐氏珞琭子賦注
People still call reading the eight characters Zi Ping, after this author.
- Era
- Song dynasty
- Volumes
- 2
- Author
- Xu Ziping
What it is
The Luo Lu Zi is an old rhymed text on fate. The Siku catalogue dates it to the Northern Song and rejects older claims. Nothing certain is known of Xu Ziping, but the method took his name.
On this site
The catalogue uses this book to show the eight characters took shape in the Song.
Sources Siku Quanshu Zongmu Tiyao.
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