A Study On The Revision Of The Bailudong Academy In The Ming And Qing Dynasties

The local chronicle is a comprehensive book that records all the events of a region.There is a wide variety of local chronicle within different administrative regions.It is a unique local historical document that inherits the Chinese civilization.It is a unique historical document of the Chinese civilization.The local chronicles record the establishment of a region,the natural geography,economy,military,cultural and educational,folk customs and other aspects of the situation.The local chronicle is obviously different from the historical records in terms of style,genre,function and value.The local chronicles focus on the combination of latitude and longitude,which record the history on the basis of historical category,and thus there has a distinction between history and local chronicle.The chronicles of the academy,the temple and the landscape all belong to the general history of the local chronicles.The local chronicles of Academy record the history,the natural environment,the teaching situation,the collection and printing of books,the management,the sacrifices and other related situation.The compilation of the local chronicles of Academy should distinguish from the history records and the local records divided by administrative division.The style of the local chronicles of academy is similar to the local records divided by administrative divisions,and its genre is also composed of the narrative,the record,the biography,the figure,the table,catalogs and so on.But the local chronicle of Academy has its own unique method of compilation and value,so it is necessary to distinguish it from the local records divided by administrative division.The biggest difference between the local chronicles of academy and the local records divided by administrative division is those characteristic,which leads to the different focus of it's content.In terms of the characteristic of the local chronicles,the scholars in Qing Dynasty mainly had two different views.To Qianjia textual research scholars,taking Dai Zhen as the representative,the local chronicles belong to geography books,which should pay main attention to historical development and evolution.Taking Zhang Xuecheng as the representative,the scholars of literature faction thinks that of the local chronicles reflect the local history,which should emphasize on preserving the local documents,providing reference for the history of the country.As the local chronicles cover a small geographical area with single functional and less geographical elements,so the author seems more inclined to point of view from Zhang Xuecheng.Academy of small geographical area,a single function,less geographical composition,it seems more inclined to Zhang Xuecheng point of view.In furtherance of the theories of local chronicles,he proposed the three standards,whether it's helpful to the history study,whether it's benefit in social education and the saving of document,which are very useful for the compilation of the local chronicles of Academy.The setting of categories in the local chronicles of Academy,the editing principle and writing structure of biography can be specifically discussed with Zhang Xuecheng's theory of local chronicles.For a long time,the scholars of local chronicles often pay more attention to some other kinds of local records,but rarely involved the local chronicles of Academy.White Deer Grotto Academy,located in Lushan Mountain,Jiangxi Province,is one of the Four Major Academies in ancient China.It contents both the general and representative characteristics of ancient Chinese Academies.The local chronicles of White Deer Grotto Academy done six times compilation in the history.And supplementary revising,pressing and reprinting was as many as ten times,which was the most revised in all the Academy at that time.The existing local chronicles of White Deer Grotto Academy as many as five categories.Those books are relatively complete the history of the Academy for more than a thousand years.It is a rare historical document of the ancient Chinese Academy.This paper mainly uses the theoretical knowledge of local chronicles,especially putting forward by the scholars in Qing Dynasty,to discuss the compilation of the local chronicles of White Deer Grotto Academy.