The Research On Local Chronicles Literature Written By People Exiled To The Northeast In Qing Dynasty

The exiled person is those people who are exiled by the rulers to remote areas forserving at hard labor because that they resist the feudal rule or are in violation of criminallaw. And then they become the Hakka residents who are different from the local person. Inthe northeast of Qing Dynasty, a distinctive culture has been formed; it was called theculture of exiled person which has local characteristics and has countless contacts with theculture of central plain area. As very special Hakka residents in the northeast, the exiledperson in Qing Dynasty made great contributions in promoting culture exchange with thecentral plain area and pushing forward the development of the northeast’s culture andeducation, meanwhile, they also left deep print of their own culture in the northeast.The works of art of the exiled person in garrison institute are not a lot because of manyreasons. But such kinds of literature as poem and prose are attracted attention by latergeneration, because these works can imitate or describe the landscapes and express minddirectly. As a matter of fact, the very important literature: local chronicles literature has notbeen deserving enough attention and exploring. Some related studies just valued poeticprose but paid less attention to local chronicles literature. Through sorting out thedeveloping history of the local chronicles literature, we can find that the local chroniclesliterature more or less lags behind the central plain area and has disparate developmentform south part to north part, especially retard in Heilungkiang area.In Qing Dynasty the local chronicles literature written by the exiled person made thebest supplement to official records and created some number one of the developing historyof the local chronicles literature. Such as, Longsha Of written by Fang Shiji is the first localchronicles literature in Heilungkiang area; Landscape essay of Ninggu Tower written byZhang Jinyan is the first essay on landscape and toponymy. Hence to study documents ofthe local chronicles literature written by the exiled person in Qing Dynasty have thehistoric value and practical significance.Based on the aforementioned purpose, this paper definite the twelve local chroniclesliterature written by exiled person or their relatives as the range of study. However, only seven of them persist till now. The other five works have been lost. But some parts of twoworks are kept by other documents.In order to show the research findings, the paper is divided into five parts.The First part is introduction. It is mainly about this paper’s meanings and missionsalso the historical evidence and research status of the topic, in addition, the methods andthinking of writing this paper.The Second part is northeast in Qing Dynasty and people exiled to the northeast in QingDynasty. Focused on the overview of the northeast region in Qing Dynasty, and thepeculiarity and contributions of people exiled to the northeast in Qing Dynasty.The Third part is the outline of the local chronicles literature of people exiled to thenortheast in Qing Dynasty. Focused on the last twelve local chronicles literatures, inquireinto every writer and their works meticulously, furthermore, discuss the variety, data,edition and layout in local chronicles literature. Additionally, the objective evaluation onthe historical contribution from the local chronicles literature of northeastern exiled personin Qing Dynasty.The Fourth part is the research of the local chronicles literature of people exiled to thenortheast in Qing Dynasty. Detailed classification and inductive analysis of the localchronicles literature of people exiled to the northeast in Qing Dynasty from the aspects oftopography, garrison, dominion, economy, trade, contribution, society, exiled person, folkcustom, religion, education and ethnics.The Fifth part is the complementary study of the local chronicles literature of peopleexiled to the northeast in Qing Dynasty. To compile the local chronicles literature of peopleexiled to the northeast in Qing Dynasty that retained in the world and the two scattered anddisappeared local chronicles literature. At the same time, discuss some of the specific localchronicles literature and the books made by people exiled to the northeast in Qing Dynasty.On the basis of leaning and utilizing other scholar’s research results, this paper madeactive efforts to dig information and arguments, meanwhile attempted to makebreakthrough and innovation in the following three aspects:First, from the perspective of historical document, the paper tried to sort information oflocal chronicles literature and their writers. And detailed the investigation of remain local version and content change.Second, from the perspective of documental arrangement and research to sort, analyzeand summarize the recorded contents of local chronicles literature, and provideconvenience to other scholars to make related further study.Third, the paper continued to explore the research into the derivative issue of localchronicles literature, from the following aspects, such as preface and postscript, lost articlesand the exiled person’s involvement in the official records in order to providecomplementary study of the local chronicles literature of people exiled to the northeast inQing Dynasty.