Study On Zhoumi’s Qidongyeyu

Zhou Mi was a famous scholar in the Song dynasty. Zhou Mi’s QiDongYeYu is a historical note affected., and also is the words and deeds of notes of Song dynasty. The review of Zhou Mi notes. Zhou Mi was looked as the top one of the unofficial history writers in Southern Song Dynasty. His works had not only rich contents but also high literature value, which were the important component of the notes of song Dynasty. so people did not pay little attention to its compiling process, style, documents quotation, and its problems, so the book’s value was.QiDongYeYu compiled by Zhou Mi was affected by both pragmatism thought for a long time and objective factors. First, the policy of Written history of Song dynasty rulers had been changed. Second, both QiDongYeYu and the style of note had the profound influence. About the book, it has two names. One name is QiDongYeYu,the other is QiDongYeYu.after investigation, the author thinks that QiDongYeYu is more appropriate. The author of QiDongYeYu was Zhou Mi, but his students took part in the process of compiling the book. QiDongYeYu was born in1618. The book has not been spreaded widely, so there is only one version.QiDongYeYu has a varied compiling style. QiDongYeYu inheritated some parts of the styles of QiDongYeYu, and changed other parts, also created new styles. Times is changing, so the systems must be enriched one by one. This book aims to praise the learned and the useful person, so it regards pragmatism thought as the most important in selecting person, regardless of their positions and morality. There isn’t QiDongYeYu without a great deal of documents. Zhou Mi was open to all kinds of historical records. in QiDongYeYu, Zhou Mi and his students used the citation ways such as extracts, cited a lot of from the tablet inscriptions unofficial histories, Chronicle, Memorial, when the author cited the documents selected the good in an open and pragmatic way. Since the book was compiled by many people,it has many problems. Time is wrong in some citations, offices are wrong in some citations, names of some persons are not right in some citations, some places are not right in some citations, etc. There are repetitions of some content.The writers were not strict with some citations, so they made many mistakes. When we use the citations of the book, we need pay high attention to these mistakes.The book has a lot of problems, but the defects do not outweigh the merits. Its value was being found by people gradually. There are clear quotations in QiDongYeYu, so it’s more reliable book of Song dynasty’s history data sources. since QiDongYeYu cited a lot of documents of the scholars, so it has widely historical value. This book is not only a treasure for the research of Song Dynasty, but also a platform to demonstrate Zhou Mi’s ideological thoughts, and a mirror of reflecting the mentality of the scholars.