Collation And Research On Mingchen Beizhuan Wanyan Ji Edited By Du Dagui

Mingchen Beizhuan Wanyan Ji, which was edited by Du Dagui in Southern Sung Dynasty, records many epitaphs and biographies of noted chancellors in Sung Dynasty. There are 67 epitaphs and biographies only in this book, as well as others could be found in some corpus, history books and rubbings. So this book is considered to be an important material that provides the life-deeds of the noted chancellors and the history of Sung Dynasty for researchers.This book has not been collated and researched systematically. The paper is a systematic and comprehensive study on the editor deeds, the versions, the time of completion, the compilation, as well as the literature value which was established on the literature collation. It probes the defect of the epitaphs and biographies as historical materials by listing and discriminating of historical sources. So it may provide convenience for researchers who make relatively fair comments of these historical figures, research historical events and take more rational use of the book.