| Yao Ying is a well-known scholar in the reign of jiadao period. He made some very significant achievements in the field of literature and historiography. Kang You Ji Xing is particularly respected by later generations among his numerous works.The book was written after the opium war. The content of the book can reflect the characteristics of the times and the trend of the development of history. As a result, the value of Kang You Ji Xing is worth further researched and explored.In this paper, the first chapter describe the comprehensive study of Yaoying’s historical achievements from his life experience, the creation of history and how to make friends and so on. The first introduction is his experience of growth, it is an important influence on the writing of history. Second, it outlines the Yaoying’s three major historical works, and it focuses on the analysis of the impact of Yao Ying’s friends about the historical writing.The second chapter mainly introduces the historical background of Yao Ying and some trends of the development of history at that time. The background of Yao Ying’s time has an important influence on the development of history. Internally, the Qing Dynasty from prosperity to decline and fall, all sorts of misgovernment are generated, and greater challenge is the invasion from the outside world that newly rising western capitalist countries Under this special background, Yao Ying’s historical writing also has the obvious characteristics of the times. On the one hand, it inherited the merits tradition of the historiography of the Qing Dynasty, that is the application of textual research methods. On the other hand it also convex showed the new orientation of history research during the historical turning period, namely it pays attention to the research of contemporary histories and frontier histories, these studies tend to exhibit strong by the world of color. These studies show is advantageous to the national economy and people’s livelihood.The third chapter focuses on the research of Yao Ying’s historiography work Kang You Ji Xing, especially the research of borderland histories and outside histories. Yao Ying’s research on the Tibetan areas are various, it contains the natural geography, Tibetan histories, institutional evolution, customs and religious beliefs. Yao Ying’s works are valuable assets to the scholars who study the histories and cultural of Tibet. Kang You Ji Xing is assembled on the basis of the existing historical records and the author’s personally inspection, it corrects errors in the many predecessors and enriches the histories of Tibetan regioa In this book the most characteristic aspect is to study the outside historical geography, on the one hand, these researches are attribute to the author’s attention to the collection of foreign knowledge. On the other hand, he has a heart of vigilance of the aggression of the western countries during his investigation in Tibet He studied the surrounding countries of Tibet and interpretation the relationship between the western powers, he hoped the contradiction between great powers could protect his country.The forth chapter focuses on comparing Kang You Ji Xing and Zhang Mu’s Mongolian nomadic, with the help of the two important historical to deepen understanding of Jia Dao period of the rise of the border area’s histories, the more important is through the comparison, it can induct and analysis of special thoughts about Yao Ying. Yao Ying is one of the leading figures about the borderland historical researches boom in jiadao period. Kang You Ji Xing he compiled has clear studying objective, it has a very important value of strengthen the government and scholars pay attention to the Tibet, it also provides valuable materials for the later scholars who research on Tibetan.The fifth chapter is the reviews of Yao Ying’s historical contribution. Mainly in the traditional literati’s pursuit of "virtues,meritorious,expounders" three immortal standard to judge the achievement of Yao Ying. The first section mainly evaluates the "expounders", analysis the value and significance of history which contains in Kang You Ji Xing.The last section analyzes the process of Yao Ying’s history study, reflected the change trends and characteristics fromtraditional historiography to the modern history.Yao Ying’s thought was deeply affacted by era background and traditional culture. His thought has certain conservative is inevitable. However, in comparison with contemporary scholars, Yao Ying is undoubtedly first-rater because he Suggested that Chinese people know more about the world.He and a group of scholars were leading the trend of The Times. Yao Ying’s thought is rich, He made great achievements in the field of philosophy, literature and history.Although, the current academic circles to its philosophy, literature and historiography has a lot of research, but the essence of his thought part still worth further research. |
