On Years of Birth and Death of Some Literati in Qing Dynasty Recorded in Genealogies

On the basis of sorting out and affirming the research fruits of the scholars of the time, this paper has made use of 11 genealogies. And it has made some corrections to the years of birth and death of 18 men of letters including Yang Ting-jin of Qing Dynasty. Compared with the officials' curriculum vitae and autographs of those who passed the imperial provincial examinations and the highest examinations, their ages recorded in their genealogies are more reliable.