Xin Qiji, a poet in the Song Dynasty, has many kinds of chronologies, but the contents are not complete enough and there are many mistakes. Deng Guangming, a famous scholar, collected a lot of historical materials, looked for rich circumstantial evidence from the cultural collections of the Song Dynasty, determined the ages of many stories of Xin Qiji, discarded many myths and fallacies, and compiled the Chronicle of Xin Jiaxuan. Its structure is:
(1) lineage, listing Xin Qiji's ancestors, great-grandfathers, great-grandfathers and fathers.
(2) Biographical resume: original word, changed word, alias, hometown, father's name, education, ambition, wife, children, concubine, age, appearance, talent and characteristics.
(3) Text: Emperor's year number, heavenly stems and earthly branches, Gregorian calendar, genealogy date, deeds and historical facts. While enumerating historical materials, it makes textual research and analysis with annotations. .
(4) At the end, I recorded a mourning for my friend after the death of the composer. The fifth son of the composer was slandered by his father. Twenty-three years after the death of the spectrum master, a church was built in lead mountain county to offer sacrifices, and Dr. Guanglu gave it to him twenty-six years after his death, and recorded a brief introduction of his descendants. The appendix to the chronicle lists the poems and articles that evaluate Xin Qiji.