A Cicada's Notes: a Girl's Notes on Cat-playing in the Qing Dynasty
by (qing Dynasty) Compiled By Sun Sun, Commented By Lu Beirong, Painted By Chen Yang
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Who said the ancients couldn't raise cats in the clouds? Sun Sun, a girl from the Qing Dynasty, checked cat articles, cat poems, and cat stories in ancient books, and personally compiled cat books... "Xiaolu of Cicadas" is a cat-themed book she compiled when she was seventeen. It covers essays, stories, poems, and pictures, and writes about "the various aspects of cat life" in ancient society. This is a work of a boudoir game, and was privately engraved by Miss Sun's family. It has a limited circulation and has been lost for a long time. This book is almost contemporary with the earliest known cat-themed book - Wang Chutong's "Cat Riding" (the third year of Jiaqing in the Qing Dynasty) but has richer content. When the later Huang Han Dynasty (during the Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty) wrote "Cat Garden", they only heard about the name of "Xian Cicada Xiao Lu" but did not see the book. In 2016, the online resources of the National Library of China's Rare Book Library were made public. Lu Beirong, a cat-loving scholar from Hangzhou, came across "Xiaolu of Cicadas" and was pleasantly surprised when he edited, annotated and commented on it. Two cat slaves in ancient and modern times span 200 years of time and space, but they have the same mind.
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