hànjiǎn
sweating the bamboo
- sweating the bamboo
- (literary) An ancient process of preparing bamboo strips for writing by heating them over a fire to dry out the moisture; also known as 杀青 shāqīng.
- bamboo scripts
- (literary) Bamboo slips used for writing in ancient times; by extension, historical records, books, or scholarly writings.
- Hanjian
- An ancient Chinese dictionary from the Song Dynasty compiled by Guo Zhongshu. Arranged similarly to the 说文解字 shuōwénjiězì, it collects ancient script forms from numerous historical sources.