Research On "The Summary Of Longsha"

The family of Fang Dengyi belonging to the Tongcheng clan,was exiled to Bukui(now Qi Qihaer)due to the involvement of the literary inquisition case of Nanshan Collection.Fang shiji followed his father Fang Dengyi to the garrison and created the historical document of Hei Longjiang —The Summary of Longsha.Due to the authenticity of his creation,it has also become one of the important classics for the academia to understand the situation in the Heilongjiang region in the early Qing Dynasty.The Summary of Longsha was written at a time when society was unified and the high aspiration was cultivated and encouraged by the court.In addition,due to the influence of traditional family studies to Fang shiji,the completion of The Summary of Longsha” has a guarantee of objectively creative environment and subjectively literary literacy.In terms of content selection,the situation of the Heilongjiang region in the early Qing Dynasty was recorded from some aspects such as square corner,mountains and rivers,economic systems,seasons,customs,diet,tribute,products and houses.Combining the poetry created by Fang Shiji and others with the life experiences of Fang Shizhuang,The Summary of Longsha was completed between the autumn of the fifty-second year of Kang Xi(1713)and February of the fifty-sixth year of Kang Xi(1717).There are two versions of The Summary of Longsha,the Shubentang Poetry Collection with an engraved version and the Borrowing Moon Mountain Room to Collect Money version.They are the same in style roughly,but have slightly different records.The engraved version of Shubentang Poetry Collection,The Summary of Longsha,was compiled and engraved by the family of Fang Shiji.The content is excellent and it can be used for proofreading and examining;However,the latter has more errors and poor quality.Recently,the new discovery Edo handwritten punctuation book The Summary of Longsha has been verified to belong to the Shubentang Poetry Collection with engraving system.The handwritten book The Summary of Longsha was copied in 1795 approximately.This handwritten book is based on the Shubentang Poetry Collection engraved version The Summary of Longsha.Chinese characters are written in ink and sentences are read in vermilion ink.There are small annotations on top of page and there is a postscript written by Koga Seisato at the end of the book.This book has been collected by Lin Shuzhai,Asakusa Library,and the Cabinet Library of the National Archives of Japan successively.The sentence readings in the handwritten book The Summary of Longsha provides reference for the textual research of The Summary of Longsha.In the process of dissemination,there were two prefaces,two postscripts and one summary in The Summary of Longsha.Throughout Fang shiji’s works,one of them is The Customs Clearance Poems which records what he saw and heard during his journey to Bukui.This paper uses it as a footnote for the study of The Summary of Longsha to further explore the historical value of The Summary of Longsha in studying the mountains,rivers,square corner,customs,culture and economic development in the Northeast region.