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Huayong yueling 花傭月令

Sep 12, 2024 © Ulrich Theobald

Huayong yueling 花傭月令 is a book on flower cultivation through the months written during the very early Qing period 清 (1644-1911) by Xu Shilin 徐石麒 (1577–1645), courtesy name Youling 又陵, style Dan'an 坦庵, from Jiangdu 江都 (i.e., Yangzhou 揚州, Jiangsu). When the Manchus conquered China, Xu retired.

The short book describes modes of horticultural production techniques and management knowledge such as dividing, planting, crossbreeding, grafting, fertilisation, grooming, collecting, and preventing diseases. The text is found in the series Chuanyanzhai congshu 傳硯齋叢書 (the first print, from 1884) and Xuxiu siku quanshu 續修四庫全書.

Sources:
Li Xueqin 李學勤, and Lü Wenyu 呂文鬰, eds. 1996. Siku da cidian 四庫大辭典, vol. 2, 1878. Changchun: Jilin daxue chubanshe.
Wang Yuhu 王毓瑚, ed. 1964. Zhongguo nongxue shulu 中國農學書錄, 198. Beijing: Nongye chubanshe.
Wu Feng 吳楓, ed. 1987. Jianming Zhongguo guji cidian 簡明中國古籍辭典, 389. Changchun: Jilin wenshi chubanshe.