Study On Tanqian 《Zaolinzazu》

Zaolinzazu is a high value note, compiled by Tanqian. It has a higher value on the research of the Ming Dynasty history. The version of the work mainly divided into the Codex and the Carving copy, the version is more and there are some differences between each version. Moreover, it covers a wide historical data sources, including reference a large number of previous records, personal experience and heard from others, etc. So its contents are very abundant, which can complement inadequacy of the official history and corpus. In addition, Zaolinzazu also has some certain academic value and literary value. In brief, the note has affluent philology value. Certainly, it also has some deficiencies, including the quotation shortage, some absurd contents, and some wrong records, etc.