A Research On Han Historical Comments Of Rong Zhai Essays

Hong Mai’s Rong zhai Essays is one of the most important historical notes in Southern Song Dynasty which is profound in academic value and rich in content. The object of this study is the history of Hans commented by Hong Mai. Hong Mai’s study of the history of the Hans help us to understand his research gains and it is also instructive for people to research Hans and other dynasties.Hong Mai commented on the historical facts of Han in the domains of politics, history, and moral. Politically, he intended to learn lessons from history and absorbed positive initiatives from the governance of Han. Historically, he meant to explore the law of rise and fall of dynasties and the historical facts. Morally, giving examples of figures in Hans, he wanted to educate the subjects what was right and what was wrong. Hong Mai’s comment on history of Hans had its distinctive features. Firstly, he emphasized the beginning and ending of the Han Dynasties. Secondly, He paid attention to historical figures. The comment on people occupied a majority of his work, which he spilled much ink about the civilian personnels rather than militaries. Thirdly, he was adept in expressing his comments by contrast.Hong Mai’s research of Han is beneficial for later generations to have a comprehensive understanding of the society of Han. His research of laws and institutions studied the political building of Han Dynasty. The research of the society and customs of Han is beneficial for people’s understanding and has profound effect on descendants.Hong Mai’s research of Hans’ history mainly according to Sima Qian and Historical Records, Ban Gu and Book of Han. Fan Ye and Book of Later Han. As these three authors and their works of history had played an important role and set a good example for later historians to study and write, they were highly spoke by Hong Mai.These highly evaluation were good reflection of his requirements on historians. Besides, his textual criticism of three works on paraphrasing words, distinguishing right from wrong and proposing and checking leaving outs and so on were an index of his achievements in studying of Hans’ history.As statistics of readers’ suggested that, remarkably, reference to Sushi were far more than other figures because of their similar customs of family, inflate official career and suffering of conflicts between different groups. Most of their comments on Hans’ history were similar. Although they had different opinions, Hong Mai’s comments in Hans especially the charters were cited from Sushi even some comments of Hong Mai were highly similar to Sushi’s. All in all, elaborating the facts of ancients to give people more distinguishments of their own time was just as a mirror which indicated their comprehension and attitude on politics and life.