A Study On The Cultural Value Of Local Chronicle Resources And Its Developing And Using

Local chronicle compiling is well-established in our country, never being interrupted in the heritage. With a variety of at least about 9000 to 10,000, China's local chronicle approximately composes 10 percent of the whole Chinese ancient books, which can be divided into the national, the local and the specialized categories. Some previous scholars in different dynasties have ever researched the functions of local chronicle, focusing on consulting politic, storing history, and enlightening people, with different stresses in the different historical periods, the mainly reason for it is that the local chronicle function evolution is changing along with the time, the content covered and ruling class's advocating. This paper aims to display the course its function evolves, treating our country's precious cultural heritage local chronicle resources by a cultural resources viewpoint, compare and analyse the ancient and modern usages of the local chronicle from exploring and making use of the main body, the standpoint, and the method of the local chronicle resources and their effects, attempting to establish the conception of local chronicle resources, better serving for our material and spiritual civilizations.With a history of over 2000 years, recording and covering ancient and modern, China's local chronicle, honored as "an entire history of a region", has a unique style and form. Being extremely numerous, Local chronicle quantity has many annihilations in the long historical flow which cannot be investigated; it has played a role of "consulting governing" and "consulting material" both in the ancient times and the modern age, its massive rich precious firsthand information with a high academic value and using value is the Chinese culture unique carrier. China's local chronicle is compiled under ruling class's advocating, the local chronicle information is foundational and interchangeable with a high favor; Simultaneously, the local chronicle is "the general covering book" of a place, it synthetically records a place nature and the social development general changing appearance, covering all kinds of branches and industries of the place, China's local chromcle is an authority and comprehensive region culture resources.The local chronicle culture resources' value not only lies in providing scientific materials, sometimes it must be effectively explained , transformed into a cultural product or service behavior, only then its value can appear. The local chronicle resources material civilization's value lies in serving for the provincial economy development, displayed in inheriting tradition technique, serving for the provincial economy, using superiority resources, developing characteristic industry, excavating on-the-spot reporting historical data, improving tourism. Its important value serving for constructing spiritual civilization lies in being treated as the traditional virtues education vivid teaching materials, as the moral reconstruction beneficial resources, as the local custom folk custom reliable carrier.Its reality is also given a good consideration. Due to the compile style, the publication funds, publishing books deadlines, ideological concept narrowness, the mechanism flaw as well as the local chronicle resources lacking in effective conformity influences, nowadays it is still far from sufficient to explore and take advantage of local chronicle resources. Those principles of benefit, initiative using, innovation and lasting sustainable are necessary for developing and using the local chronicle resources to follow. As to the strategies, the follows can be taken. Firstly, establish systematic and effective mechanism, and the system innovation, strengthen the propaganda. Secondly, act as circumstances permit with a classified development, compile the second-hand literatures of the local chronicle resources, strengthen the digitization and the network construction. Finally, enlarge the work team storing.