Huizhu Lu

The Huizhu Lu (揮麈錄; "Records of Waving a Duster") is a 12th-century (or early 13th-century) biji-style Chinese history book written by the Song dynasty scholar Wang Mingqing (王明清) who wrote the book over a period of 30 years. Focusing mainly on the fall of the Northern Song dynasty (Jingkang incident) of 1127 and the restoration of the dynasty, the book contains a lot of information on the functioning of the imperial court.

It contains 4 sections:

• "Former Records" (前錄), 4 chapters
• "Latter Records" (後錄), 11 chapters
• "Three Records" (三錄), 3 chapters
• "Addendum" (餘話), 2 chapters

References

• Theobald, Ulrich. "Huichenlu 揮麈錄 "Records of a Horsetail Wisk"". Chinaknowledge.

Further reading

• De Weerdt, Hilde (2016). "Continuities between Scribal and Print Publishing in Twelfth-Century Song China—The Case of Wang Mingqing's Serialized Notebooks". East Asian Publishing and Society. 6 (1): 54–83. doi:10.1163/22106286-12341286.