A Textual Research On The Huang Ming SanYuan Kao

Huang Ming SanYuan kao co-written by hongdao zhang and ningdao zhang, is ahigh-valued reference literature work. The finishing and the publishing time of thisbook is Wan-li forty-eight.There are altogether four block-printed editions preserved,three of which were published.The best one is a version of "Siku" CompleteBooks.Huang Ming SanYuan kao has a various content, which contains the realcondition of the Imperial examination of the ming dynasty and the recorder of all theelite in the examination.We can judge from the content of the book that the author’saim of writing this book is to praise the elite and encourage the ordinary people.Thisbook has a strict writing principle which is to be systematic, standardized andrigorous. Huang Ming SanYuan kao also has a believable source of data. Theprinciple of the imperial examination is mainly from Yan Shan Tang Collected worksand The research of the imperial examinations of the Ming dynasty. The list of theYuan-kui, which is mainly about Jie-yuan, is from The research of the imperialexaminations of the Ming dynasty．Hanlin Bachelor is mainly from Yan Shan TangCollected works. The brothers from the same imperial examination,the member of thecabinet,the first-class minister,the second-class minister, is mainly from The researchof the imperial examinations of theMingdynasty and The record of the of the imperialexaminations.Biography is partly take local records as refenrence source.Moreover,Huang Ming SanYuan kao may also take Di-bao as refenrence source. As for TheProvincial Examination recording, its way of managing the reference source arecopying, edition and picking up some of the important informations. The value of thisbook lays at its classifying of a massive of biography of ming dynasty. It is a goodremedy to the history resources. It is a good reference resource to the research of thehistory of the ming dynasty. However there are still some insufficiencies of thebook,such as the lack of innovation and so on.accrding to these insufficiencies,thispaper mainly consentrate on the tracing of history and the remedy of the recorder.The number of emendations for Jie-yuan is212，and the final number of Jie-yuan is1204. As for the part of Hui-yuan, Zhuang-yuan, Bang-yan, Tan-hua,the book mainlymakes up the recorder after the year of Wan-li.There are also the conditions aboutHuiyuan and Yi-jia.