History of the Ming Dynasty
The History of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) is one of the 24 histories of the so-called official history in China, which is a historical book in the form of a chronicle, which records the history of the Ming Dynasty from the first year of Zhu Yuanzhang Hongwu to the seventeenth year of Chongzhen of Ming Sizong (1644), a total of 276 years. On April 11 of the second year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty, Zhao Jiding of the imperial history asked for the compilation and revision of the history of the Ming Dynasty, and selected the president of Wenxing Hongru Chong, the compilation and repair of officials. However, it was stopped many times in the middle of the process, and it was not until the seventeenth year of Kangxi (1678) that the compilation of the history of the Ming Dynasty officially began, with the basic pacification of the rebellion of the three feudatories, political stability, and economic prosperity. Kangxi edict raised one hundred and forty-three erudite scholars in Tiren Pavilion, took twenty people from the top class and thirty people from the second class, and set up a compilation group of Ming history, with Xu Yuanwen as the supervisor, Zhang Tingyu as the chief writer, and Bu Yi Wansi compiled and revised the history of the Ming Dynasty. Until December of Yongzheng (1735), it was presented by Zhang Tingyu, a scholar, and officially published in the fourth year of Qianlong (1739), which took nearly 50 years. If it is counted from the second year of Shunzhi (1645) to the fourth year of Qianlong (1739), it lasted 95 years, almost a century. Qiao Zhizhong divided the official compilation and revision of the history of the Ming Dynasty into four stages: the second year of Shunzhi to the seventeenth year of Kangxi as the preparatory stage, the eighteenth to forty-seventh year of Kangxi as the foundation laying stage, the forty-eighth to sixty-first year of Kangxi as the abolition and dropout, and the first year of Yongzheng to the fourth year of Qianlong as the final completion stage.
Most of the history of the Ming Dynasty was completed by the hands of Vance Tong, and Sitong exhausted his life's energy for the history of the Ming Dynasty. Qing Dynasty economist Yang Chun said: "The history of the Ming Dynasty was formed in the hands of the old man at the beginning of the country, and Wan Ji Ye has a lot of achievements." The chronicles and biography are longer than the epigraphs, and the biography after Wanli is longer than before the middle of the century. Yuan Chonghuan, Zuo Liangyu, Li Zicheng biographies, the original manuscripts are two huge volumes. The deletion and elimination of the elimination and the structure of the favor are far away in the history of the Song and Yuan dynasties. "In terms of structure, the history of the Ming Dynasty adopted the structure of the chronicles that had been handed down from the beginning of the historical records, and was divided into 24 volumes of the Benji, 75 volumes of the Zhi, 220 volumes of the biography and 13 volumes of the table. The number of volumes is second only to the history of the Song Dynasty in the 24 histories, but in terms of the length of its revision time, the diligence far exceeds that of the previous history books. In the fourth year of Qianlong, when the history of the Ming Dynasty of Wuyingdian was completed, Gaozong of the Qing Dynasty issued an order to imitate the outline of the general examination of capital governance to edit the outline of the Ming Dynasty, and the book was written in the eleventh year of Qianlong.
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