Record of the Seasons of Jingchu
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| Traditional Chinese | 《》 | ||||||||
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| Literal meaning | Record(s) of the Seasons of Jingchu | ||||||||
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| Kanji | 荊楚歲時記 | ||||||||
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The Jingchu Suishiji, also known by various English translations, is a description of holidays in central China during the 6th and 7th centuries. It was compiled by Du Gongzhan in the Sui or early Tang (early 7th century) as a revised, annotated edition of Zong Lin's mid-6th-century Record of Jingchu or Jingchuji. The original Record is now lost; the original text of the Jingchu Suishiji seems to have been lost as well, with current editions consisting of various attempts of Ming and Qing scholars to recover the text from fragments in other works.
Zong Lin (, Zōng Lǐn, w Tsung Lin; AD 498–561) was a member of the Nanyang immigrants to Jiangling, Hubei, who composed his Record of Jingchu under the Liang. It seems likely he wrote the book after moving to Chang'an in 554. Aside from the Jingchu Suishiji and other fragments, the original text is now lost.
Du Taiqing (t , s , Dù Táiqīng, w Tu T‘ai-ch‘ing; born c. 536) drew from Zong's work in composing his own seasonal calendar, the Precious Canon of the Jade Candle (t 《》, s 《》, Yùzhú Bǎodiǎn, w Yü-chu Pao-tien), shortly after 581. It survives in an incomplete Japanese manuscript, probably from the 14th century.
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