The 6th East Asian Meeting of Astronomy was held just at the time of 400 years after the discovery of SN (supernova) 1604 and its pre-maximum observation by the astronomers both from the East and the West in the 17th century. It has a special meaning and is interesting to look back on the historical observation of SN 1604. In this paper, we only limit to concern the Chinese observation on SN 1604.

• Z.R. WANG(Department of Astronomy, Nanjing University)
• Y. ZHAO(Institute Of Chinese Classics, Nanjing University)
• M. LI(Department of Astronomy, Nanjing University)
• Q.L. ZHOU(Department of Astronomy, Nanjing University)