China astronomer Yuzhe Zhang pushed the date of China's recording of Halley's Comet earlier. In the article "Evolution Trend and Ancient History of Halley's Comet" written in June 1978, he pointed out that the earliest record of Halley's Comet in China can be found in "A Brief Training of Huainan Soldiers", which contains: "Wu cut the east to welcome the new year, reaching the water and setting * * *. The comet came out and gave the Yin people a handle. " In other words, the king of Wu attacked Jupiter, which was facing the east. When he got to this place, it rained, and when he got to * * * *, there was a landslide. At this moment, a comet appeared, with its head in the east and its tail pointing to the west, as if it were given to Yin people (Zhou Wang) with a broom handle to sweep away troops from the west. If the comet recorded this time is really Halley's comet, this is what it looked like in BC 1057; This is the earliest record of articles published in the past. Yuzhe Zhang even pointed out that his appearance not only greatly promoted China to record the earliest date of Halley's Comet, but also provided a new set of verification methods for the chronology of China's history to write some outstanding chronology problems. In the past, I only knew that in the 300-year history of the Western Zhou Dynasty, the exact year of the reign of Emperor 13 could not be verified. This time, by borrowing the information about the appearance of Halley's Comet recorded in ancient books, we can determine that the time when King Wu was attacked was 1057 BC, and we can gradually find out the age of the Western Zhou Dynasty in 300 years. This is the best example of the interaction between astronomers, archaeology and history.

In fact, the earlier Halley's comet is recorded, the less detailed its data is, which is very difficult for calculation and textual research. However, there is no doubt that China is one of the few countries that recorded the data of Halley's Comet first.