“…The spatiotemporal heterogeneity of EASM rainfall during the Holocene is also a debated issue (Shi et al, 2012;Xie et al, 2013;Chen F. et al, 2015;Jia et al, 2015;Rao et al, 2016;Zhou et al, 2016;Goldsmith et al, 2017;Zhu et al, 2017;Huang X. et al, 2018;Ming et al, 2020;Xu et al, 2020). For example, stalagmite δ 18 O records show an early Holocene EASM maximum (Dykoski et al, 2005;Wang et al, 2005;Cai et al, 2010;Dong et al, 2010;Zhang et al, 2019), which is also supported by lacustrine records from southern China (Zhou et al, 2004;Zhong et al, 2010;Wang et al, 2016;Sheng et al, 2017).…”