Zheng Xiao And "JinYan"

"JinYan"was Zheng Xiao's last writing, only four volumes, but contained the history from Hongwu to Jiajing more than 180 years, twelve generations. The content contained politics, military, economy and many other kinds of the society.This article will study Zheng Xiao and"JinYan"thoroughly from philology. The content contains :Zheng Xiao's family and his life, specially his birth and dead year, and his writings; where the"JinYan"'s informations origin and the created background;"JinYan"'s different editions, the style and the existed situations;"JinYan"'s values of historiography are the emphases, to certify the contents abundantly and true, the function of supplement to other books, the spirit of writing true history, the strict style of study of distinguish and the advanced national viewpoint, they are the keystones of this article. Finally, we will talk about the little shortage of"JinYan", but it doesn't influence"JinYan"'s values.