…the weather in summer was unusually hot and humid, but fortunately without disease. Powder shipments from the north were temporarily halted due to bandit activity. This year's orange crops are large, healthy, and considered by the elders to be better than past crops. Shipments of the surplus supply to the north and west have already started. This bodes well for everyone involved with oranges. In the middle of summer, the General Ling successfully gave birth to a healthy infant son weighing exactly ten pounds and fathered approximately ninth months earlier by General Gan. Problems concerning the naming of the boy arose, as there was no precedent for whether the boy should take the family name of the father who gave birth to him or the father who fathered him. A new experiment on the cultivation of rice was taken on near Sanwong…
-Excerpt from the 3rd century official Liu Wan's journal, translation reprinted with the permission of Museum of Chinese Cultural Heritage, Nanjing Branch.
