Chronicle of Cai Yuanpei (Volume 1)

Author: Gao Pingshu
Publisher:
Publish Date: 1999-03-01
Features: This book is arranged in chronological order by year, month, and day. Dates with year and month but no day are listed at the end of each respective month; dates with year but no month or day are listed at the end of each respective year. The seasons are marked as follows: Spring covers the solar terms of Lixia to Qingming (lunar January to March); Summer covers the solar terms of Xiaozhi to (lunar April to June); Autumn covers the solar terms of Xiazhi to Chushu (lunar July to September); Winter covers the solar terms from Daquan to the following year's Yueshu (lunar October to December). Dates listed in this book before 1911 are in the lunar calendar (all accompanied by the corresponding solar calendar month and day). From 1912 onwards, dates are generally in the solar calendar.
This book cites Cai's original works and other people's records. If there are typographical errors in the original text, the corrected characters are placed in square brackets [] after the incorrect characters. Missing characters are supplemented within <>. Redundant text is marked with []. Characters that are suspected to be incorrect but cannot be confirmed are marked with [?]. Missing or unclear characters are represented by . Some names and terms cited in the original text require explanation by the author of this book, which are placed in square brackets [].
In the cited original text, some words or sentences are underscored with a dot ·. Unless otherwise noted by others, these underscores were added by Cai himself.