"Almanacs help us to understand how the 'little traditions' affected the lives of ordinary people. You can't find any information about the functioning of society in the formal historical materials," says Huang, who discovered two Qing dynasty popular almanacs in the library at Leiden University in the Netherlands.
「通書可以讓我們瞭解當時小傳統如何影響常民生活，這些社會運作的細節，不是在正式史料所能看到的」，黃一農舉例，例如時間制度如何在中國演變？