Jin And Southern Dynasties The Cremation And Philology Development Research

The Jin and the Northern and Southern Dynasties is a very important stage of the development of the documentation science in China. Gentries play a pivotal part in this stage of the development of the documentation science. Gentries possess powerful political strength based on the Nine-rank system. Gentries accumulate their economic strength by the way of taking field, taking mountain and taking away by force or trickery, based on powerful political strength. Gentries stimulated by the learning atmosphere that gentries should have extensive knowledge and rich experience, whose academic foundation is Confucianism, had a significant impact on the field of culture because of family education. Gentries did the work of literature creation, collection and collation consciously. It accumulated a wealth of literature entities and provided a rich and full object of study for the documentation science. They not only affected the knowledge selection by controlling the official school, but also took full advantages of private education of large families. They supported the further propagation of the literary documents and saved feeder strength for Cultural heritage. The large demand and high quality for paper promoted the improvement of the document carrier, heightened replication rate of the literary documents and expanded the scope of the literary documents spread. Gentries practiced the various methods of the documentation science further by their academic activities. They got great success in bibliography and annotation science as well.