The Explorative Utilization And Supplementary Collection Of Mencius Family Mansion Archives

Currently, Zoucheng Museum collects the largest number of Mencius Family Mansion Archives. It has the possession of "many kinds of Mencius Family Mansion Archives, including the aspects of government affairs, the economy, the sacrifice, and most of them are business reads, working documents, all kinds of income and expenditure account." The content mainly includes "the record on the Serbs, staff, servants, worship field, forest and temple management and the sacrifice."In 2009, School of History and Culture of Shandong University reached an agreement with the Zoucheng Museum and took the job of the preliminary check-list of Mencius Family Mansion Archives. This paper is on the basis of actual collation of relevant literature, studies the collation of Mencius Family Mansion Archives, collection, development, utilization, and supplementary collection, the details as follows:Chapter One is an overview, a detailed description of the profile of Mencius Family Mansion Archives, the value and status quo of preservation. Mencius Family Mansion Archives has a very high value, but for now, the museum pays attention to collection but makes light of practice. This behavior is not good for the role playing. Therefore, systematically organized and full work of development and utilization becomes important and necessary.Chapter Two is mainly about preparation of initial order, the specific process and results. The major sorting result is manifestation of Mencius Family Mansion Archives. From the manifestation we can find the important information such as the number of files, save situation, the basic content. Also, by summing up the work experience of preliminary sorting and organizing principles, but also for guide to future work, and the last part of this chapter which is about the idea of finishing work is based on the former part.Chapter Three focuses on the development and utilization of Mencius Family Mansion Archives. Only make Mencius Family Mansion Archives into use can play its role and value and the existence of Mencius Family Mansion Archives is meaningful. This chapter is under the theoretical guidance of the principle of "make a concrete analysis of concrete problems" of materialist dialectics, considers the common factor of development and utilization, but also takes into account the particularity of Mencius Family Mansion Archives, specifically discusses the requirements and means of the development and utilization of Mencius Family Mansion Archives. In this context, according to the actual situation of Mencius Family Mansion Archives, and learn from the past practical experience of development and utilization of the Mencius Family Mansion Archives, the author designs several realistic approach of development and utilization to realize maximized value through various channels.Chapter Four mainly discusses the added collection of the Mencius Family Mansion Archives. It is an important work to ensure complete integrity of Mencius Family Mansion Archives, but also ensure that Mencius Family Mansion Archives can play an important role. The meaning of the collecting additional files to Mencius Family Mansion Archives is to collect the files which are not stored in Zoucheng Museum. This chapter first introduces the importance of collecting additional files to Mencius Family Mansion Archives, and then according to the scattered files to develop the way of supplementary collection, and the last is about methods of collecting to ensure smoothly work.Through the above analysis and discussion, the main purpose is to:1. To rich the content of the study of Mencius, to provide historical information to another idea to study Mencius thought, and make the study more systemic and comprehensive.2. To fill gaps in Mencius Family Mansion Archives research and to combine archives management with cultural relic's preservation.3. To strengthen social services faction of the archives, to attract Montague descendants, scholars and the general public to visit Mencius Family and acquaint with Mencius Family and Mencius thought. To make it really become the "Holy Land", to promote tourism development in Zoucheng and Shandong province.4. The capture and use of Mencius Family Mansion Archives can set up a model for each family, that is to say every people and every household has files, and this is a sign of indicators of a harmonious society.