The Research Of Tongdian·Zhoujundian

Tongdian was the earliest history books focusing on the adimininstrative system. It differs from the biographies history book and the annalistic style history book. It transfer people's eyes from the personal factor to the adminisitrative system when people want to investigate the history and find some laws governing social advancement. Predecessors'research on "Tongdian" mainly pay attention to its'overall value of the book or its'academic thought. Few people study it's content respectively up to now. " Tongdian zhoujundian" as one part of the nine of the book focus on the local administrative system and the geographical features of a place.The article mainly studies the "Tongdian zhoujundian" and the author manages to analyse the content overally.First:as the part concentrating on the geographical feature,the "zhoujundian" inherited and developed the ancient geography book both in the content and writing style. Meanwhile the Zhoujundian especailly emphasized on the the course of change about the local adminstrative division.Second:Zhoujundian contains the detail record of the change of local adminstrative divison. Through the change,we can know about the unbalance of the economical development in Tang Dynasty. For example we can reach a conclusion that southwestern area had maden a faster progress than southeast in ecnomic.Third:Zhoujundain record many knowledge about human geography, covering transport geography, economic geography, regional customs and history, the derivation of the name of one place, local landmarks, monuments and many other aspects. Those give us a comprehensive understanding of the social customs in the Tang Dynasty.Fourth:The part also includes many records on the natural geography states. Such as the famous mountains, rivers and especailly details records about lakes. All those give us a raliable clues to study the change of geographical phenomena in china history.Fifth:As a famous chapter, Zhoujundian also have a great value about the documental compilation. It can be used to emend other documents as well as supply valuable material to compile other losted history books.