On Southward Crusade Record,Guangxi Youjiang Battle Achievement Record,Southwest Record Research

The authors of Southward Crusade Record,Guangxi Youjiang Battle Achievement Record,Southwest Record are respectively Zhang Xuan who was the famous politician of Ming dynasty,Tang Shunzhi who was the famous essayist of Ming dynasty,Guo Yingpin who was the famous politician of Ming dynasty. The content of the three works is crusading against the rebellious people of Guangdong and Guangxi from Tianshun dynasty to the early days of Wanli dynasty.The content of the three works is detailed and actual,it records many people of each layer of Ming era,this includes not only the Ming dynasty famous generals as Shen Xiyi,Yin Zhengmao,but also some lowly people as Wei Fujian,Cen Jin,who was not recorded in many historical works. The content also contains dozens of historical events of Guangdong and Guangxi in Ming dynasty,and the main is Guangxi. Some of the important events are consistent with many other historical books, for example: crusading against the Gutian form the fourth to the fifth year of Longqing dynasty; crusading against the Huaiyuan form the first to the second year of Wanli dynasty .All of these prove the authors were factualistic when they were working. Some of the events as "capturing Hang Xianxiang"are the complementarity for the other historical works. A little content is the historical headstream for many books,such as Ming History on Shen Xiyi,[Wanli]Guangxi Local General Records. So the historical value of the three works is very high. The three books also records climate,products and geography on Guangdong and Guangxi,and these are the firsthand information on studying the interrelated things of Guangdong and Guangxi for later generations. Because the three works record the thing of crusading against the rebellious people of Guangxi in Ming dynasty,so the content is related with Ming dynasty Guangxi's chieftain system.The records of the correlative historical events makes a significant contribution to studying the Ming dynasty Guangxi's chieftain system for later generations.