Quantifying Evolution of Short and Long-Range Correlations in Chinese Narrative Texts across 2000 Years

Table 1

Diachronic corpus .

Time period	1	2	3	4	5	6
	Work	Work	Work	Work	Work	Work
Texts	MèngZǐ (Mencius); Lshìchūnqīu (Mister Lv’s Spring and Autumn Annals)	Shìshuōxīnyǔ (A New Account of the Tales of the World); Yánshì Jiāxùn Shū (Mister Yan’s Family Motto)	Niǎn Yùguānyīn (Grinding Jade Goddess of Mercy); Cuòzhǎncuīníng (Wrongfully Accused of Ying Ning); Jiǎntiēhéshang (A letter from a monk)	Shíèrlóu (Twelve Floors); Wúshēngxì (A Silence Play)	Nàhǎn (Yelling); Pánghuáng (Hesitating)	Xīndàofózhī (The Buddha Knows Your Mind); Huíménlǐ (A Wedding present)
Scale (characters)	141,864	94,729	11,220	233,430	91,705	12,980
Selected text scale (characters)	10,000	10,000	10,000	10,000	10,000	10,000
Time span	B.C. 3th-B.C. 2th	A.D. 4th-A.D. 5th	A.D. 12th-A.D. 13th	A.D. 16th-A.D. 17th	Pre-	A.D. 21th
					A.D. 20th

narrative texts from Time Period 1 to 4 are from http://www.gushiwen.org/; the narrative texts of Time Period 5 are from http://yuedu.163.com/; the Xinwen Lianbo texts in Time Period 6 are from http://tv.cctv.com/lm/xwlb/.