这里我们要介绍一部字典,它是东汉人许慎所编的《说文解字》(以下简称《说文》),这是中国最早的一部有系统的字典。也许有人会说,字典有什么可谈的,这不就是人人会查,碰上认不得的字就翻翻的字书吗?现在这类书有的是,什么《汉语大字典》《中华大字典》《新华字典》,谁家都有一本两本,何必要那么一本正经地介绍它?可是,有三个理由使我们不能不重视它的意义: Here we are going to introduce a dictionary which is the earliest systematic dictionary in China written by Shu Shenwen from Eastern Han Dynasty (hereinafter referred to as Shuo Wen Jie). Some people may say that there is nothing to talk about the dictionary, this is not everyone will find it, hit the word that can not be turned over to flip it? Now some of these books, what “Chinese Dictionary” “Chinese Dictionary” “Xinhua Dictionary”, who has a copy of two books, why so simple to introduce it? However, there are three reasons that we can not fail to value its significance: