Textual Criticism Study Of Mongolian Historical Records

In 13 th century on the grassland of Mongolian Plateau,an Uighur man named Tatatong-a,which was an official man of Tayang-khan of tribe of Naiman,created the Uighur-type Mongolian scripts,a kind of written language widely used by the Mongolian people in China today.Mongolian chronicles are a kind of historical records about Mongolian golden family lineage and political,economic,military,and cultural affairs occurs at that time.Between 17th-19 th century,lots of so called “chronicles” written by prairie intellectual,most of them were well educated Buddhist.As being a basic researcher who did the literature study,with an eye to editions,textual criticism,writing years and authors is an essential condition for history discipline.While the western scholars did their research with an eye to edition of Mongolian historic literatures,the scholars from inner Mongolian of China published plenty of textual criticism works on mongolian chronicles.These works have not only gave antient literatures new life but also boost the scientific historical field.