Jingchu Suishiji (original) (raw)

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 in the Sui or early Tang (early 7th century) as a revised, annotated edition of '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.