SOURCES
What we cite, and what we do not invent
Baize is not a secret school. The claims that can be checked are listed here. If a line cannot be sourced, we do not put it on the site as fact.
壹Texts
| Source | What we use it for |
|---|---|
| Ming Hui Dian; Ming History, Treatise on Carriages and Robes | “Dukes, marquises, imperial sons-in-law and earls wear qilin and baize.” Rank of the badge, not a folk tale. |
| Ming History, Biography of Xu Da | The Xu line and the Wei-guo dukedom that later held the excavated robe. |
贰Object
| Object | Note |
|---|---|
| Plain-satin baize-badge court robe, tomb of Xu Fu, Nanjing, 1977 | National Grade-1 cultural relic, Nanjing Municipal Museum. Woven (not embroidered) baize badge. Official museum wording is the authority, not our video. |
叁Modern scholarship
| Work | Note |
|---|---|
| Lu Zhiji, A History of Chinese Mingli Studies, Shanghai People’s Publishing House, 2008 | Quoted on the method page: expecting 100% predictive accuracy is either a stallholder’s pitch or a daydream. |
肆What this page is not
It is not a complete bibliography of Chinese destiny studies. It is the short list behind sentences already published on this site. Re-enactment footage is labelled as such; it is not a photograph of the artefact.
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Method