Guo Pu
Though the majority of the collection have subsequently been lost, the restoration work, which involved identifying a great number of variant scripts as well as collating fragmented bamboo strips and finding parallels in the received literature of the time, sparked renewed interest in ancient texts and epigraphy among Xun Xu's contemporaries such as Lü Chen (呂忱), who extended upon "Shuowen Jiezi" to write the "Zilin", Guo Pu (郭璞), who wrote annotations to "Erya", "Sancang", "Fangyan", "Shan Hai Jing", and the "Tale of King Mu", and Zhang Hua, who wrote an encyclopedic treatise on wide-ranging topics, supposedly in a thousand scrolls, the "Bowuzhi", to note a few.