The Style And Feature Of Records Of Changan City

Records of Changan City is a representative work of local chronicles of SongMinqiu, and is China’s earliest existing ancient capital chronicle. This book can acrossthousands of years, from Song Dynasty to now, there will be its own way. Itsuniqueness should be interpreted from two aspects of style and feature. The style ofRecords of Changan City, integratedly use Zizhu style, annalistic style, Jizhuan style,imitation Guobie style, above all four historical writing styles. The styles are clear,the structures are reasonable, and have far-reaching influence on later generations.Among these four kinds of styles, the Zizhu style is most widely used throughout thebeginning and the end of the book, and has detailed content and various forms. It iscomposed of adding nature Zizhu,explaining words Zizhu,explaining MingwuZizhu,and connecting nature Zizhu four forms. Records of Changan City ‘s compilingfeature is making good use of the rhetoric, and its succinct and terse from thelanguage style. It emphasizes on the humanities activity recorded in the highlight ofhumanistic care from the content point of view. For example, a record of the millet,wheat crop production and the canal, dam water conservancy facilities highlight thehumanistic concern for the ancients mode of production; A record of four kinds oftraffic facilities, yi, du, bridge, pavilion, and the two kinds of material such as Geshaand Xuezhan,highlight the humanistic concern for the ancient way of life; A record ofentertainment places music workshops, leisure places hot spring resorts, and Qujianghighlight the humanistic concern for the ancients recreational activities; A record oftemples and ancestral temples,underscore the humanities concern of the ancientreligious belief; A record of the imperial tombs and tombs, highlight the humanitiesconcern of the ancient dead world.