1, with a general unified record of comprehensive national conditions; 2. Regional local chronicles, such as provincial chronicles, state chronicles, county chronicles, local chronicles, etc. 3. Special records refer to the records of mountains and rivers, temples, academies, scenic spots, people and customs. Local chronicles originated very early.
"Li Zhou Guan Chun" has unofficial history's theory of "keeping the ambition of the four seas". By the Western Han Dynasty and Wei and Jin Dynasties, the word local chronicles had become a common occurrence. During the Qin, Han, Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, local chronicles were still in the formation stage. At that time, local chronicles were all geographical books, both in style and content, and the titles were mostly local chronicles and local chronicles. Its content mainly describes regional boundaries, mountains and rivers, customs and customs. During this period, the first existing local chronicles in China, Yuejueshu, appeared (it is said that it was written by Yuan Kang in the Eastern Han Dynasty). During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, illustrated classics prevailed, and local chronicles in the name of records and records also developed. The so-called map classics were based on maps at first, indicating territory, mountains and rivers and land. Classics are descriptions of maps and their attachments. During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the classics were the main ones, supplemented by them, which were closer to the nature of local chronicles. In the Song Dynasty, local chronicles, which mainly recorded places, became a branch of historiography. At this point, local chronicles began to prepare and become a whole. Compared with the previous generation, the local chronicles of the Ming Dynasty have developed, and the number and types have increased. There is a unified local chronicles throughout the country, and all provinces generally compile general chronicles or general chronicles, and prefectures and counties below the provincial level have also compiled local chronicles many times. In addition, there are local chronicles, village chronicles and so on. As for the nature of local chronicles, the Ming Dynasty clearly put forward that it belongs to the category of history. Qing Dynasty is the heyday of local chronicles, which is not only complete in variety and quantity, but also more complete in style and content. In the Qing Dynasty, the imperial court issued many imperial edicts to urge the provinces to compile local chronicles, and there were also many monographs about landscape temples, scenic spots and historical sites in gardens, as well as records of Guanjin, Yanjing, towns, fields and cities. Local chronicles appeared again in the late Qing Dynasty. The compilation scale of local chronicles in the Republic of China is much smaller than that in the Qing Dynasty, and the style mostly follows the old chronicles, but some new contents have also appeared, such as focusing on recording the production and people's lives of agriculture, industry and commerce, adding various statistical charts and so on. China local chronicles reflect local characteristics, and are revised on time, with extensive contents and strong reliability and authenticity. There are more than 8,500 kinds of local chronicles preserved so far (not including temples and temples), of which the Qing Dynasty has the largest number, with more than 6,000 kinds of * * * and 65,438+ten thousand volumes. In addition to local libraries, there are many local chronicles abroad, some of which are scattered among the people. After 1980s, the compilation of China local chronicles was led by the China Local Chronicles Steering Group under the State Council. By 1995, more than 5,000 local chronicles had been published nationwide.