The Scholars of Shen Zhou

The concept of plural form is missing in Chinese. The SGZ record itself can be read as something like "Lady Xiaohou giving birth to daughter(s) who become Liu Shan's empress(es)". It is of course respectfully careful to assume that there might be another wife/concubine giving birth to Zha...

TigerTally wrote: ↑Thu Mar 16, 2023 5:41 am When Lady Xiaohou married Zhang Fei , she was also just about 13 years old. If she was indeed mother of his first daughter, that would also support putting the birth year around 206.

Seems like a solid case to me. But it was noted above that we don’t know if she was?

Does anyone know where the C.206 birth for the eldest daughter of Zhang Fei comes from? Out of curiosity I checked Rafe's Tome as it is the reference for her date of death, but it lists nothing for her birth. Went ahead and removed the "C.206" reference while I was in there. But it can be...

I am just about to ask :P The reign year tool looks nice. But for jianan, I used to remember an apostrophe is needed (jian'an), to avoid confusion between jia/nan and jian/an. I actually meant to ask about exactly that! Another which comes to mind is Chang’an. So I pondered it, and it occurred to m...

Thought I’d pop in with a little update so it doesn’t seem as though I’ve fallen off the face of the world. I was plugging along on getting the novel ready, and building a tool to manage Reign Years as a prototype of the tools that would be used to edit the novel, and I hit a point where I realized ...

I don't have the forum in my bookmarks; either one. Just KMA - then from there I click the links. So it extra shouldn't matter, haha. Okay, cool. Good to know! That would serve the same purpose as KMA is using the current standard link. Although in any case, this shouldn't really be interfering wit...

I'll add this here as we are attempting a major addition and something of an overhaul to our community here: Any Externally Linked SGZ Biographies etc, will probably have to be either rewritten or migrated over here. I just ran into this issue with Sun Shao (Gongli) biography link, at least most of...

That kinds of sounds like what CTEXT is doing. example: https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?if=en&chapter=288848 They have a "jump to dictionary" arrow to the left of each paragraph, after clicking on it you can see every character's reading and meaning. Openlit is also doing this in a slightly...

Maybe add a button to automatically generate and fill in simplified Chinese, pinyin etc (based on the traditional Chinese character inputted) from OpenCC or other libraries at the entry editor's interface? That’s what I’m thinking. The code I have in place should be able to generate Wade-Giles from...

Maybe, for something like chi , we can just outright allow the user to specify their unit of measure in settings. So it can just go straight to saying "six feet" or "1.8 meters." And the default can be to display a conversion in a tooltip with the text in the novel saying "x...