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In the twenty-first year of K‘ang Hsi[1] there was a severe drought, not a green blade appearing in the parched ground all through the spring and well into the summer. On the 13th of the 6th moon a little rain fell, and people began to plant their rice. On the 18th there was a heavy fall, and beans were sown.
[1]: A. D. 1682; that is, three years after the date of our author's preface. See _Introduction_.