A Study Of Huang Jingfang And His Works

Huang Jingfang, style Taizhi, also style Keyuan, was born in Jinjiang city ofFujian. He worked in Tianqi and Chongzhen dynasties of Ming. His fellow officialsincluded Hanlin Bachelor﹑Junior compiler in the Historiography Institute﹑companion for the heirapparent﹑reader in waiting﹑adviser、mentor、academicianexpositor-in-waiting、vice supervisor of the Household of the Heir Apparent andsupervisor of the Household of the Heir Apparent. He was appointed premier with thepost of Minister of Rites and grand secretary of the Grand Secretariat in JuneChongzhen fifteenth year. He advanced Minister of Revenue, grand academician ofthe Hall of Literary and junior guardian of the heir apparent next year. He resignedofficial post in September of the year. In his official period, he had assume the officeof the provincial examination moderator, participant in the classics colloquium, theDirector-general of the Historiography Institute and Codification Office. He hadcomeback and soon withdraw from society during the years of Tangwang longwu.Research on the Huang Jingfang was still insufficiency. The existing researchincluded the simple introduction to his life and the textual criticism of the edition andforming time of GuoShiWeiYi. Due to not a detailed textual research, his life was stillunclear. And although academic circles research on the edition and forming time ofGuoShiWeiYi, his writing purpose and its reflected thoughts was completely ignore.The writing of Huang Jingfang was abundant, its remains were short. Due to lots ofwere rarity, not got easily, so its attention and use were few. Based on above, On thebasis of comprehensive collection of his historical material and works, the thesis wasdivided two parts, the one is the research on Huang Jingfang, other is research andintroduction on his works which focus to HuangMengLu and GuoShiWeiYi.Part one, through the life of Huang Jingfang, the article reduction his life,especially official performance during the Qi and Zhen dynasties, and clear up hisofficial though. Part two, research on the HuangMengLu first, settle its existingversion, circulation and deduce its forming time. Via its historical data, the articlerefer to History of Ming Dynasty and combine history books which NationalDeliberations, ChongZhenChangBian, diary records of ChongZhen, reflect thehistorical value of HuangMengLu. The second, the research on the GuoShiWeiYi, Onthe basis of previous studies, the thesis clear existing editions, and combine his life, HuangMengLu and the historical accounts, review its edition and reduction historicaldata sources according Huang Jingfang’s descriptions. More over, the thesis conduct astudy to his writing purpose and historical thinking, which combined his status,current political situation of Ming dynasty and ideological trend.Through the investigation of Huang Jingfang and his books, the thesis highlighthis serve prince and official thought of great minister is one who serves his princeaccording to what is right, and when he finds he cannot do so, retires which the coreof Truth （Dao，道）, the standard of the destiny of one’s country as one’s own andhigher the national interest of emperor. The thesis obtain his secular thinking whichthough to his study on national heritages and pursue the approach.