School Of The Eastern Han Dynasty Book Revisionist History Research

The rulers of the Eastern Han Dynasty paid attention to the work of singing praises of their dynasty and advocating their exploits, so they paid more attention to the compilation of history books. And the royalty promulgated the edict to begin the work of collating books and compiling history. The local Dongguan was created which was the place for collating books and compiling history in the Eastern Han Dynasty. And the homologous official positions ware appeared such as lantai officer, official editor and director of the palace library. It can be seen that the rulers of the Eastern Han Dynasty paid more attention to the historiography. The high tide of the collating books and compiling history was appeared in this period, and lots of history works were produced and the number of literati officials was increased who participate the work of compiling history.The paper hackles the condition of collating books and compiling history in the Eastern Han Dynasty systematically and makes up the omission. The collating books and compiling history in the Eastern Han Dynasty could be divided into four periods. The prophase included emperor Mingdi and emperor Zhangdi of the Eastern Han Dynasty is an important stage as link. The middle period are emperor Hedi and emperor Andi of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and this period is the flourishing period of collating books and compiling history. The middle-later period is emperor Huandi, then the work of compiling history is not flourish as before. The later period is the emperor Lingdi and emperor Xiandi, which is the time that Eastern Han Dynasty trend to perdition. The work in the Dongguan is almost stopped in the later period, but there are few activities. By hackling the historical materials, it is obtained that the number of the people is large, who participated the work of compiling history, and a large number of historical works are left for later generations. The paper hackles this four periods separately, makes textual criticism on the time of collating books and compiling history in each period, collates the information and makes up the omission.The paper hackles and adds the omission of the compiling history in the Eastern Han Dynasty. The historiography works in the Eastern Han Dynasty have more abundance changes than the works in the Western Han Dynasty in the form and style. The works in the Eastern Han Dynasty produce far-reaching impact on the activity of compiling history. The collating books and records and compiling the history books play an active role for compiling the national history of Eastern Han Dynasty, and supply large historical literature, and these are useful for later generations to understand the historical appearance of the Western Han Dynasty.