Research About Shidong Xu And His Siming Liu Zhi Of Song And Yuan Dynasty

Zhejiang has a reputation of ’home of local chronicles’,and has high status in the history of the development of local chronicles.For example,there are about forty intact local chronicles of Song and Yuan Dynasty throughout the country so far,and among them,Zhejiang has occupied the great proportion of nineteen.Among these local chronicles,Siming Liu Zhi of Song and Yuan Dynasty redacted by Shidong Xu,(Qiandao Siming Tujing,Baoqing Siming Zhi,Kaiqing SimingXuzhi,Yanyou Siming Zhi,Zhizheng Siming Xuzhi,Dade Changguozhou Tuzhi),is an important part which is complete.In the past studies,there are still much space for Shidong Xu’s research,and for these six books,scholars often use the contents to analyze some aspects of Ningbo,but the study of the book itself and the comparison of these six books is rare.This article aims to study Liuzhi of its nature,its revision,its version and so on.The first part of this article describes Shidong Xu’s life,collection of books,scholarship and so on.The latest published books have added many information about the life of Shidong Xu.In the past,researchers had many doubts and misunderstandings of when the Lianhu Library changed its name to Yanyu Library,and when it changed for another time to West-City Cottage.In this article,based on the textual research,answers can be figuerd out.The emphasis of the article is on the progress of Shidong Xu’s editing this six books.The name of Siming Liuzhi is not accurate.Actually,there were seven books and Jiaokanji after them.Well-known scholar,Huanchun Hong thought there were two versions of Liuzhi,one in the Xianfeng 4th year and the other in the Tongzhi time.Through analysis,I think that may be caused by the misread of the poem Da Jue Xuan,founamentally may be caused by unfamiliarity with the process of editing.After the study,we can know that the main part of Liuzhi had been completed in Xianfeng 4th year,but it hasn’t been revised until Guangxu 5th year.After Shidong Xu’s death,the real completion of Liuzhi had been published.The entire editing process can be divided into five stages.First,pre-preparation,second,concentrated working,third,re-correct errors,fourth,after war’s mending,fifth,final publishing.And then I focus on the manifestations of Shidong Xu’s research,his explanation,correction of errors after the volumes,(addendum,new proofread work),collation and so on.I point out that the missing Zhaji is the most important research contribution of Xu Shidong ’s work.From the perspective of the content,his work can be divided into four categories:proofreading,collection,catalog arrangment and data compilation.At last,there are still many limitations for the research work of Shidong Xu.I hope that the future researchers can have further work,rather than relying too much on the past research results of Shidong Xu.