A Study On Unofficial History Concept Of Ming And Qing Dynasty

In traditional historiography, unofficial history has a long-lasting market, it sprouts in the pre Qin, and in the Ming and Qing Dynasty, it has presented a splend sight. That’s we can see the development of unofficial history was in a rising stage. In the development process, to maintain its stability, unofficial history also change with Times. The stability of unofficial history refers to the way of "write record", but as a kind of literary form, unofficial history would be affected by other forms. The background is the basis of the content of unofficial history, so unofficial history would also be affected by the change of time, academic changes and other factors. The concept of unofficial history has remarkable features.After the middle of the Ming Dynasty, new changes have emerged in the political situation and social situation, such as the relatively less political control, developing commodity economy, and the prevalence of the YangMing philosophy; these changes create beneficial environment for the development of the Ming and Qing Dynasties unofficial history. The development of Ming and Qing Dynasties of unofficial history starts in the mid Ming Dynasty, and suppressed by Qing government in the middle of Qing Dynasty, and re-active in late Qing Dynasty. The prosperity of unofficial history of Ming and Qing Dynasties attracts the attention of the society, for the reason of the prosperity, the scholars have given their views.The creation of the unofficial history expressed author’s thoughts. The author who have different experiences and different ideas have different views, even on the same thing, they would show different points in their books. The different compilation purport of the Ming and Qing Dynasties rich creation history view. The different compilation purport enrich the historiography of creation conception, in dynasties of Ming and Qing, the unofficial history of creation conception are mainly repairing the lack of history, to express ambition by unofficial history, to help the world by writing, establishing the rules of etiquette, amusing himself by writing.Different man has different views on judgement of unofficial writings. The main judgement of unofficial history shows its historical value and style. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties some scholars cast severe criticism for the value of unofficial history, also some scholars claim paying more attention to the value of unofficial history, they think it should be utilized.The spread of historiography has greatly promoted the development of historiography. From the preface and postscript of the unofficial history works of Ming and Qing Dynasties, we can see the main mode of transmission and dissemination of the unofficial history. Besides, it promotes academic exchanges. And scholars can create new historical works according to unofficial history. One of the characteristics of the unofficial history is that it’s no taboos. The unofficial history without obscure violates political baseline of Qing Dynasty. To maintain the government control, government crack down the development and transmission of unofficial history, so unofficial history has its development trough in Qing Dynasty.