The ''Vân đài loại ngữ'' () is a 1773

chữ Hán ( , ) are the Chinese characters that were used to write Literary Chinese in Vietnam, Literary Chinese (; ) and Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary in Vietnamese language, Vietnamese. They were officially used in Vietnam after the Red River Delta region ...

encyclopedia compiled by the Vietnamese scholar

Lê Quý Đôn (chữ Hán: (; 2 August 1726 – 11 June 1784), , on his pen name is Doãn Hậu , and Quế Đường was an 18th-century Vietnamese poet, encyclopedist, and government official. His pseudonym was Quế - Đường. He was a native of Duye ...

. 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

Song dynasty The Song dynasty ( ) was an Dynasties of China, imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 960 to 1279. The dynasty was founded by Emperor Taizu of Song, who usurped the throne of the Later Zhou dynasty and went on to conquer the rest of the Fiv ...

Confucianism Confucianism, also known as Ruism or Ru classicism, is a system of thought and behavior originating in ancient China, and is variously described as a tradition, philosophy, Religious Confucianism, religion, theory of government, or way of li ...

.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 non-fiction books Vietnamese encyclopedias Chinese-language literature of Vietnam 18th-century encyclopedias Leishu Lê dynasty texts