Conflict And Harmony:Ming Dynasty Historians And The History Of The Qing Dynasty

The traditional Chinese historiography goes back to ancient times,and it gradually formed the development pattern of coexistence between official historiography and private historiography in the long historical development process.It’s the climax period of private compiling history during the regime changing from Ming to Qing in the history of Chinese historiography. As the main body of private compiling history,the Ming historian group engaged in historiography creations for the purpose of "writing the real history of Ming".Ming dynasty historian created a large number of historiography creations that caused a certain degree of impact to the official historiography of early Qing dynasty shaking the status of official historiography.In the creation activities of historiography,Ming dynasty historian held different appeals to the issue of Ming dynasty history compiling with the Qing official,and their appeals were regarded as heretical,especially for the question of how to write the Naming history.Since then,in the competition with each other,the Ming dynasty historian were guided by the early Qing dynasty to merge into the track of official historiography.As the time went by,Ming dynasty historian group gradually quite the stage of Qing dynasty.This was not only because of the ending of their life,but also the group’s internal spiritual character and concept of value had blended in the official historiography of Qing dynasty.In the process of competition and fusion,the Qing dynasty official historiography acquired continuous progress and improvement, and reformed the idea of incompatibility in the Ming historian’s mind with the Qing dynasty official concept.Meanwhile,using the policies and guiding role, the Qing dynasty lead the Ming historian group to submit to its rule.Impelled by the Qing dynasty official cultural standard,the Ming dynasty historians improved their identification to the rule of Qing dynasty.Finally,the Qing dynasty official established the orthodox history writing principle of grand unification by melting the Ming dynasty historians’embrace of Zhu Zi’s Philosophy to repel the barbarians.And the Qing dynasty responded to the reasonable aspiration of the Ming dynasty historian to the Naming history,resulted in the final establishment of official historiography principle of "unification" and "all state laws".In brief,the early Qing dynasty official melted and absorbed the history conception of the Ming dynasty historians,setting up a series of official historical ideology,shaping the principle of the official history writing,promoting the Qing dynasty historiography to a new height.