The Historical Writing Of The Eunuch In The Ming Dynasty

Eunuchs always play an important role in the historical stage of the Ming dynasty,whether from the system's completeness,influence or the number of people,are unprecedented.The eunuch is the manifestation of politics in Ming Dynasty,and the writing reflects the special interest of the Ming Dynasty.The books of the Ming Dynasty,whether official or private,the eunuchs have obvious bias.Behind historical writing is actually a matter of historical choice,where political power is in the hands of historical writers,and the history of eunuchs is written by their opponents.Unlike the former dynasty,the Ming dynasty established the first eunuch school,many eunuchs have a certain level of education after receiving education,and eunuchs have the ability to write their own history.This paper attempts to study the image of the eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty from the perspective of two different writers.For the first part,the analyst in the official history of eunuch writing.This paper summarizes the eunuchs created in s in Mings real record and Ming's history,and compares the differences among the eunuchs in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.The author analyzes the different periods of the Ming and Qing Dynasties.The difference of existence.Part two is concern on the written in the private eunuch writing,because the Ming Dynasty anthology notes voluminous,the author can not be exhausted,only select the representative records for analysis.At the same time the use of unearthed epitaph data,which modeled the eunuch image.And then compare the epitaph and the writing of the difference.In part three,I will analyze the historical writing from the perspective of eunuchs.The use of eunuchs written by the historical data,mainly based on Liu Rue Yu's "Zhuo zhong zhi" and eunuch's poems.Mainly concerned about the eunuch itself and the surrounding eunuchs of the record,including how to write eunuchs in the good class and eunuchs in the bad class,especially Wei Zhongxians9 writing.It is hoped that through the research of this article,grasping the relationship between historical writing and historical image can enrich the eunuch image and sort out the formation and reason of eunuch's different image.