Gu Qiyuan And The Preliminary Of KeZuoZhuiYu

KeZuoZhuiYu is a historical notes of Gu Qiyuan, it provides a rich of information to the research of the history of late Ming Dynasty, especially the history of Nanjing region.This article conduct a comprehensive and systematic analysis research to KeZuoZhuiYu, it includes several contents. First, Gu Qiyuan’s lifetime and his writes, this part introduces Gu Qiyuan’s lifetime resume and his main writes. Second, KeZuoZhuiYu’s source, this part includes his own experience, visiting among the people, learning from others’ works and academic notes. Third, KeZuoZhuiYu’s compile and its edition, this part introduces the whole story, the" purpose and the style of the compilation. Forth, KeZuoZhuiYu’s historical value. This article has a rich material to the research of Ming Dynasty, provides the first historical research to Nanjing local history, records a lot of research material in the philology field, complement Ming Dynasty’s records. Fifth, the inadequate of the KeZuoZhuiYu is that this book includes a number of gods and spirits, absurd things, a corruption of the historical data and records of contradictions, also does not indicate the source. However these cannot outweighed those good ones, KeZuoZhuiYu is still regarded as a indispensable literature to research Ming Dynasty history and Nanjing local history, and has a high literature value.