The ''Vân đài loại ngữ'' () is a 1773

Chinese-language Chinese (, especially when referring to written Chinese) is a group of languages spoken natively by the ethnic Han Chinese majority and many minority ethnic groups in Greater China. About 1.3 billion people (or approximately 16% of the wor ...

encyclopedia compiled by the Vietnamese scholar

Lê Quý Đôn Lê Quý Đôn (; 1726–1784) was an 18th-century Vietnamese people, Vietnamese poet, encyclopedist, and government official. His pseudonym was Quế - Đường. He was a native of Duyen Ha village in present-day Thái Bình Province. He is cons ...

. Its title is variously translated into English as ''Categorized Sayings from the Van Terrace'' or ''Classified discourse from the library''. The work was heavily influenced by

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.黃俊傑 ''中華文化與域外文化的互動與融合'' Volume 1 - 2006 Page 480 "黎貴悖深受宋儒特別是朱熹的影婪。他在(芸台類語)中抄錄二朱莒關於理、氣的論述.說:天地之間有理有氣。理也者.形而上之逍也.生物之本也。氣也者.形而下之器也.生物之具也。是也人物之生.必某此理.然後有性;必某此戎.然後有形。天下未有無理之杖."

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Van dai loai ngu 1773 books Vietnamese encyclopedias Chinese-language literature of Vietnam 18th-century encyclopedias Leishu Lê dynasty texts