The Comprehensive Research On Unearthed Documents Of Wuzhong City In Ningxia

The unearthed documents of Wuzhong City in Ningxia are from Qin and Han Dynasty to the Republic of China from the era. From the text carrier, mainly in Chinese literature, however, there still exists a small number of Xixia, Tibetan, Sanskrit and other languages of literature. In the aspect of material carrier, metal and stone literatures are the dominant in spite of a small amount of paper, silk and wood quality literature. The stone literature includes inscriptions, brick and ceramic inscriptions literature, while metal quality literature mainly contains seals, coins, statues and other inscriptions literature. In addition, the Ningxia and Gansu local chronicles also save a lot of stone inscription of Wuzhong. There is no one to do special systematic research work on unearthed documents of Wuzhong until now.This paper divided the unearthed documents of Wuzhong into three categories, that is, stone literature, metal quality literature and paper, wood, silk quality literature in the basis of overview the research findings and combing the unearthed documents of Wuzhong. Among which, stone literature and metal quality literature take the large part. The paper focuses on the inscriptions research, above all, combs48stele inscriptions of Wuzhong, which distributed in the period of Tang Dynasty, Ming Dynasty, Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China. The stele inscriptions include10steles,2benevolent monuments,19tombstones and17epitaphs. Geographically,5in Litong area,16in Qingtongxia,11in Tongxin County,16in Yanchi County.The second part takes4stele inscriptions of Ming and Qing Dynasties as the object of research, recording the epitaphs and testing on the content of the epitaphs. In order to make the recorded texts as close as possible to the monument, we use vertical and tradition way to record the epitaphs. Besides, the variant characters and folk and mistaken characters were retained. The passed-down documents recorded the Qing Dynasty LiuZhongzhuang s ancestral halls inscription. We divided the phenomenon of text into two categories according to the collation between inscriptions and the passed-down documents. One is variants, including the variants emerged from traditional, simplified Chinese, variant characters, old and new Chinese characters and variants emerged from a sense universal. The other is some text phenomena, for instance, E (讹), Tuo (脱), Yan (衍),Dao (倒). Guangxu Ninglingting Zhicao is closest to the original monument inscriptions, among which only two errors and the variants almost simplified characters and variant characters. Thus the damaged portion of the inscription is mostly made up from Guangxu Ninglingting Zhicao.The local chronicles have saved a lot of epigraphy inscriptions. The third part of the article consults the geographic evolution history of Wuzhong and sort out36carved historical documents of Wuzhong from14Ningxia and Gansu local chronicles, such as Jiajing Ningxia Xinzhi, Wanli Shuofang Xinzhi and Kangxi Shuofang Guangwuzhi, among which we picked up three of them for case study. We divided the phenomenon of text into two categories according to the collation between the local chronicles which firstly recorded the monument inscriptions and other local chronicles, inscriptions in the corpus.