明朝的周忱(chén)曾经担任处理案件的邢部侍郎,后来任江南巡抚。在他任江南巡抚的时候,总是随身带着一个记事本,对每天发生的事情,不分巨细,全都记载下来,即使每天天气的阴晴也一一详细记录。刚开始,人们都不明白周忱为什么要这么做。有一天,某县有个人来报告说,一艘运米的粮船突然遇到风暴,被吹跑了。周忱就询问他,船是哪天丢的,是上午还是下午,当时刮的是东风还是西风?可那人回 The Ming Dynasty Zhou Chen (chén) once served as Xing minister assistant handling cases, then Ren Jiangnan governor. During his tenure as governor of the south of the Yangtze River, he always carried a notepad with him and recorded everything that happened every day, regardless of the size, even though the weather of every day was also recorded in details. At the beginning, people did not understand why Zhou Chen did so. One day a certain individual in a county came to report that a grain transporting grain ship suddenly encountered a storm and was blown away. Zhou Chen asked him, the day the boat is lost, is the afternoon or afternoon, when the wind is blowing the east or west?