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Ji Han is an author from ancient China about whom very little biographical information survives; public records are limited, and his dates, native place, and official career can no longer be reliably established, so what is known today rests mainly on the works attributed to him. The Nanfang Caomu Zhuang (Treatise on the Plants and Trees of the South), attributed to Ji Han, is an early botanical text that systematically describes the plants of the Lingnan region. It records, entry by entry, the appearance, habits, and uses of grasses, trees, fruits, and bamboos in spare, lucid prose that combines natural-history knowledge with literary flavor, and later generations have often regarded it as a classical work of both scientific and literary value. Three related works are held here, including editions such as The Great Plants: Nanfang Caomu Zhuang that make this little-known classic accessible to a wider readership, offering insight into ancient botanical writing and its refined, unadorned style.
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Rating 4.0★ Treatise on the Plants and Trees of the South 嵇含 · 2024 Traditional Chinese thought and culture have a long history and are highly original, inventive, and literary. Early forms of thought are highly distin… Rating 4.1★ A Description of the Plants and Trees of the South (A Must-Read Obscure Classic for Literary Youth) 嵇含 · 2023 Nanfang Caomu Zhuang is the world's earliest regional flora, predating Western botanical works by more than a thousand years. Most of the plants recor… Rating 3.8★ Great Plants: Records of Plants and Trees in the South 嵇含 / 兰心仪 / 杨盈盈 China Pictorial Publishing House · 2022 Nanfang Caomu Zhuang (Treatise on the Plants and Trees of the South) is the earliest extant botanical monograph in China, completed in 304 CE. The boo…Publishers
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