Li Chi Ming Historical Research And Study Historical Criticism

LiCiming,called Shiho,a famous scholar in the late Qing Dynasty.He authored<YueManTangDiary>,<BaiHuaJiangFuLoftPoem>,<XiaChuanHuaYinPoem>,a nd among these opera,<YueMan hall Diary>is the most presentation of his scholarship and known as one of "the most famous four diary"in the late Qing Dynasty.<YueMan hall Diary>described and recorded the sight of forty years’ society life between XianFeng forth year to GuangXu fifteenth year, covered the view of the government and the commonalty,the commentary of celebrities,the textual research of famous articles and the China traditional poetry and ballads by himself and many other style writings.The great antique work has precious valuable in historical science and literature.In the<YueManTang Diary>,the record of Li’s experiences from reading everyday was the most valuable part,was the important historical materials to the research about his ideology.The formation of Li’s thought was influenced by QianJia period literary style,It was said that LiCiming was the people who was liked with QianDaxin and HongYixuan, and insisted on the tradition from the early Qing Dynasty.And LiCiming also was good at historical textual criticism and made a difference in the research of historical records and famous article,the change and development of institution,the physical geography of landscape and many other aspects.On the other hand,Li’s thinking also closely linked with the age of he had lifed.LiCiming lived in the period of XianFeng and DaoGuang,and it also was the period of turmoiled in the political situation and the pwer of Qing Dynasty declined.All these made Li’s academic reseach didn’t confine to the one-side textual criticism,but formaed manypromethean private opinions and commertary during his reading.It tended the style of emphasizing statecraft and practical use.As a sinologist,LiCiming not only agreed to the important of the textual criticism,he thought "a wrong commentary of the famous articles may make a totally bad influence on the current society.A wrong explaination may make a bad influence on the people.The disordered learning style may discard the classics and rebel against orthodoxy.But at the same time, he didn’t follow blindly. He criticized the parochialism in the textual criticism of sinologists, he said:"most sinologists prefer to take more and more explaination.Their txtual criticism usually from over-round and never abandon a little. They prefer being blamed too mixed and disorderly to have omitted. It almost become the "common-sense".The paper aimed at analysising the academic research and characteristics of Li, and tried summarizing the methods of his criticism from the process in his success at the aspect of word explaination, the physical geography of landscape, the change and development of institution. At the same time, the paragragh analysized his commentary on historical writings and historians when he researched the ancient literature.Based on these, the paper tried to summarized the opinion of Li on the history books style and historical materials applications. And also as a scholar in the period of studying evolution, Li’s opinion on the dispution between Han and Song group in literature.The whole paper includes five parts.The first part mainly introducts the whole life of Li, and his works. And the historical consequence in closely link between the learning characteristics and the current society. While, the group experience of Li himself also influenced the formation of his thought. Therefore, it was necessary to study the life experience of Li when we learned the characters of Li’s thought on the whole.The second part is the most important part, as to introducts the success on historical criticism. The part started from his historical criticism on words research, lingering charm recovery, physical geography of landscape and the development of institution, to summaried the criticism success.The third part mainly summaried Li’s methods of textual research and collation. This past based on the first one, to summaried the methods during textual research, mainly included the collation between different editions, different historical workings, and included the summary the right and error of predecessors during Li’s textual research.The forth part mainly introducts the historical critical by Li.From the aspects of the style of the historiography,the expression of historical consciousness in historical books,and the commentary to historical workings and the disputation between Han and Song styles,to summarized LiCiming’s thought.The fifth part based on the forth part to summarized the learning characters of LiCiming himself.Analysising from the aspects of principles of research,academic spirit,and the learning attitude to summarized LiCiming’s study spirit.As a sinologist in the period of late Qing Dynasty,he insistted on the tradition from QianJia learning style,made a choice based on the evidences,left the questions open ground and not to scramble others interestings.The epilogue at the last of the paper.lt mainly introducts the attitude of his learning,and also included the commentary to LiCiming by historian circle.Meanwhile,it summarized the important value of LiCiming’s workings,to made sure that he was the people who insistted on the traditionof early Qing Dynasty. At the same time,it showed the readers that the study about LiCiming was still confined.To study LiCiming’s success more comprehensive would make a different in studying LiCiming’s thought and step into the learning charscters of late Qing Dynasty period.