Volume 1, Chapter 3: Hanlin Academic

　　In the ninth month of the sixteenth year of Xiande, Jiang Zhe enters Hanlin Academy.¹ Due to ranking first in the imperial examinations, he becomes a Hanlin Academy Junior Compiler,² rated seventh-ranked.³

　　

In the first month of the seventeenth year of Xiande, due to his erudition and reputation, Jiang Zhe was appointed to help establish the Palace of Sublime Culture. Over a period of three years, Jiang Zhe was appreciated for his skill, his research and a.n.a.lytical ability, for often enduring sleepless nights and forgetting to eat, diligence and hard work.⁴ Not much later, he is promoted to the rank of Hanlin Academy Senior Compiler,⁵ rated lower sixth-ranked.⁶

—Southern Chu Dynastic Records, Biography of Jiang Suiyun