 The date of the "Shiming" is almost as controversial as its author.However, it is undisputed that Liu Xi lived at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty and was a refugee (who fled to Jiaozhou, present-day Hanoi) from the turmoil between the Yellow Turban Rebellion in 184 and the dynastic collapse in 220 CE.From this table of contents, the "Shiming" clearly followed the "Erya"s organization into semantically arranged chapters and all their titles begin with the word "shì" ("explain; explaining").