The Literature And Art Records Of Wendeng County

China has a long history of cataloguing local works. As an important part of local records, the catalog of local works’ essential function is to reflet the situation of local works. Sun Yirang, a master of Confucian, whose Wen Zhou Jing Ji Zhi is a masterpiece of local works’catalog. Large numbers of local works’catalogs are significant results of Bibliography.Wendeng is located in the east of Shandong peninsula. It is never to cancel of the few counties and cities in Jiaodong peninsula county. The beginning of Wendeng county is in Beiqi series four years (568), belongs to the Guang county Changguang prefecture. It has a history of 1400 years, the origin of its name is the Wendeng mountain in the east.Wendeng is a country with long history and profound cultural background. Wendeng’s people attach great importance to education, therefore both official schools and private schools are prevalent in the country. There are also many famous and influential clans and excellent scholars, as well as epigraphic books, and many of them were handed down from ancient times. The clan of Yu of Wendeng is a famous book collector, from Yu Lian to Yu Xixue, and to Yu Changjin,Yu Changsui brothers, both were famous bibliophiles, they also had many connections with Yang Yizeng who was from Liao city. Liu Bishao, who also came from Wendeng not only collected lots of books but also wrote many books by himself. Famous Confucian scholars Bi Heng and Li Yunsheng both had original insights on the study of Classics. Bi Heng had his fame by helping Sun Xingyan to compile the Shangshu Jinguwen Zhushu and Zhouyi Jijie. The calligraphy engraver Bi Yixiu who built Tingyu Building and collected ancient seals, was famous for his iron pen works. The judge Xu Shilin was so familiar with the laws that there was almost no mistakes in his judges. Lv Zhanen who explained Liaozhai Zhiyi had many original explanations and novel opinions. Xinchao Bugujing wrote by Lv was a famous agriculture book and helped farmers a lot. Lv Kang’s Crab List was a monograph on crab. Zhushi Erxiangting Ci wrote by Song Zhishu and Meihuating Chuangqi wrote by BiNaiqian both were excellent theater works, and loved by people. Besides, there are many other works existed but rarely be seen in Wen Deng. There is no specific book list to record the works wrote by Wendeng’s people, such as The Record of Wen Deng Country which wrote during the reign of emperor Guangxu has no single Yiwenzhi, these works were mostly separated in Biographies, Biography of Lienv and Biography of Buddhists and Taoists, and had no strict stylistic rules, and mistakes cannot be avoid, so it is difficult to reflect the important role of Wendeng’s people in the whole culture history. Therefore, by patching the leaks and compiling the works of Wendeng’s people to build the Yiwenzhi of Wen Deng is an urgent and important task to be solved.The Literature and Art Records of Wendeng County was a monograph onliterature and history of Wendeng county. This book recorded Wendeng natives’works according to their native place from long time ago when we had record to the year of 1911, the Xinhai revolution. Each literary piece of the works included the book title; number of volumes; auther; dynasty; writing method, versions and collections,etc. The book classified works in groups after referring to the imperial catalog of the four treasuries, Chinese books synthesis record and Chinese rare books record. On the basis of this point, it got a clear thinking of the achievement In the Confucian classics, history, philosophy and belles-letters of Wendeng county and its development vein. This record included 278 works, among which 55 were the Confucian classics,17 were about the four books, which side reflects the splendor of the imperial examination system and the dense academic atmosphere of the county. And there were 47 works in history column. Geography works got the largest quantity with a number of 18 works, most of which were the county annals compiled by Wendeng natives. Beyond that there were still 42 philosophy works and 134 belles-letters works. All of these reflected the great achievement of Wendeng natives in the aspects of Confucian classics, history, philosophy and belles-letters,etc.The Literature and Art Records of local county has the meaning of the transmission of cultural accumulation, it is beneficial to preserve and promote local history and culture. The local document collection could provide abundant literature data, The Literature and Art Records of Wendeng county can not only fill the blank of the related research field, can also let us know the cultural and academic achievement of Wendeng. It is beneficial to inheritance the precious cultural heritage, And it has very important in the traditional Bibliography and Chronicles, it also have certain inspiration function in other ancient cultural study areas.