Description

Presented here is a printed edition of Chong xiu Jiangnan Huagai Shan zhi (A newly compiled gazetteer of Mount Huagai to the south of the Yangtze River) from the Jiajing reign (1522‒66). The work has a rectangular-shaped seal impression of Tianyige Library, and the title was recorded in that library’s catalog. It was originally compiled by the Daoist Zhang Yuchu (1359‒1410) and issued with a preface by him dated 1407. It was reissued after the Yongle reign (1403‒24) in an edition that replaced the Daoist stories ...