RED CHAMBER — CHAPTER, EVENT AND TIME RECORD
Original reading worksheet. Selected examples concern chapters 1, 18 and 27.
No later outcomes or complete novel chronology. Stop at your spoiler boundary.

EDITION AND BOUNDARY
Translator / editor / volume:
Last chapter I have read:
Chapter number and chapter title in my edition:
Passage or page reference:
Which scene, people or events this note reveals:

EVENT ROW — repeat separately for each event
What happens, stated briefly:
Whose viewpoint or statement supplies the timing:
Short exact time wording in my edition:
Chinese anchor, if I have actually checked it:
EXPLICIT DATE OR NAMED MARKER — preserve original calendar wording:
RELATIVE TIME — next day, next year, approximate interval, etc.:
INFERRED DATE OR ORDER — label my inference and give its anchor:
STATUS — happened / proposed / approved / expected / conditional / unclear:
UNRESOLVED — missing year, uncertain link, edition difference, etc.:
Source actually read:
Source not yet checked:

CONNECT ROWS ONLY WHEN THE TEXT SUPPORTS THE LINK
Earlier event and its passage:
Later event and its passage:
Explicit connector, if present:
My proposed connection, if not explicit:
Reasons not to calculate an exact duration:
Do not use chapter count as elapsed days or assume examples share one year.

SELECTED CHECKPOINTS — consult only after reading the named chapter
1: summer frame; named Mid-Autumn gathering; proposed nineteenth departure
   differs from Yucun's actual departure reported the next morning.
1: Lantern Festival child-loss scene; later fire explicitly March fifteenth.
   Do not merge the fire into Lantern Festival night or invent a story year.
18: near-end tenth-month preparation; approved visit next year's first-month
    fifteenth; first-month eighth and fourteenth preparations.
18: reported palace schedule is not a record of every action occurring
    exactly then; retain original watch/hour wording when useful.
27: next day explicitly fourth-month twenty-sixth; Mangzhong at wei time.
    Narrative season/custom, literal date and poem imagery need separate notes.

BEFORE SHARING A TIMELINE
Does each asserted date have a passage and event?
Are proposals and conditional wishes separated from completed events?
Did I label calculations and assumptions instead of calling them explicit?
Did I keep traditional month/day notation instead of guessing Gregorian dates?
Did I avoid turning poetic seasons or '360 days' into literal calendar data?
Are unverified historical customs still labelled as portrayed in the novel?
Have I stated the chapter and spoiler scope beside the shared table?
Leave unknowns blank. A reliable small record is useful without a full calendar.