Study On County Annals Of Gaolan In Qing Dynasty

Three books,namely Qianlong County Annals of Gaolan,Daoguang Continued County Annals of Gaolan,and Guangxu Recompilation of County Annals of Gaolan,are comes down in one continuous line in content,with the historical value.The content involves all aspects of Lanzhou and part of nearby district.It records various aspects,including history evolution,military defense,natural disaster,water conservancy construction,feudal land tax and products,academy education,welfare policy,social customs,and local characters.County Annals of Gaolan in Qing Dynastywas complete in structure,rich in the genre,reasonable in the category,and pay attention to the change of history as well as field investigation.The content is very careful and the quotation is wide.It is called Faithful History by the Qing scholars;the scholars in Republican period praised the Guangxu Recompilation of County Annals of Gaolan as the Famous Annals in Longshang District.However,there were also deficiencies,such as meaningless prefaces,nonstandard writing principles,and lack of pictures and so on.