The Tongshan Prominent Families' Local Records Compilation In Ming And Qing Dynasty And Its Local Power Evolvement

Tongshan became a County since the Northern Song Dynasty Qian De two years,and its local chronicles altogether went through five times compilation in history.Now it has four years of Kangxi and seven years of Tongzhi and Guangxu twenty-three years county annals and Min Guo seven-years local records in stock.Among them,the kangxi fours' tongshan annals exists 2 kinds of version, the block-printed edition deposited in the National Library,the manuscripts of 1974 deposited in the Taiwan.Those two versions have big differences whatever in content,font and even the increases in content after four years of Kangxi,which is worth for further disscussionTwo versions have big differece and worthy of further discussion,no matter what the content, font, and even the increase of the content after Kangxi four years.Tongshan met war after establishment,which made local people less and less.Meanwhile people immigrated into south-east area of Hubei province constantly,which made many immigrants gathered in Tongshan.But what makes immigration history of Tongshan special is almost half immigration happened in Song&Yuan Dinasties.Tongshan is located in south-east of Hubei and next to Jiangxi Province,its marginality and polyphyly of geographical location made it accept immigrants earlier.Besides it has long history of family reproduction and enough land resources,which made noble families with generations of people living together come into being.There are three main rivers in Tongshan,Tongshan river,Xiapu River and Baoshi River.Most noble families live around these rivers beacause of transportation conveniency and rich soil.Same with other counties,power of noble families always took part in county annals edition.Specifically,since Ming and Qing dynasties,it has been in the power of the ZHU's,who wanted to build an impression of cultural family besides obtaining pratical benefits,In fact it turned out to be a succesfully way, organizing marriages with noble families in the prefecture of Wuchang lead the ZHU's to ethnic identity based on self-construction.Actually after Qing dynasty, other families like the SHU's,the XIE's,the Wang's,the Yue's rose,which broke the situation that the ZHU's in the power of culture.the game among these noble families showed the improvement of rights forcounty annals edition.By comparing several Art and Literature,record of election of<Tongshan County Annals>, we could have better analysis about appearance and disapearance,the rise and the declining of power in different stages of county annals edition.By comparing the share changing for art and literature of noble famlies,we would see the changes of family power,furtherly we could know annals edition activities and process for local power changes. the changes reflects historical process of local society.