A Study Of Shao Jinhan’s Historiography

Shao Jinhan from childhood infiltration of family learning,grandfather and others under the teaching of diligent study,lay the roots of the study of history.Later,due to the reasons of scientific examination and travel to the curtain,he got to know Qian Daxin,Dai Zhen,Zhu Yun and other well-known sinologists,and was deeply influenced by the textual research of Qianjia,and paid some attention to the elucidation of historical theory in the process of discussing history with Zhang Xuecheng.His historiography was influenced by the Shao family school,the regional scholarship in the east of Zhejiang and the style of study in the period of Qianjia-Jia,and had the remarkable characteristics of textual research and theory interweaving.In the thirty-eighth year of the reign of Emperor Qianlong,Shao Jinhan was ordered into the Siku Library,engaged in the work of summarizing and collecting the lost books,and took the opportunity to record the second secret edition.This experience increased his knowledge,provided a platform for him to display his historiography talent,became the main source of his historiography fame,and to some extent,launched his official career.However,Shao Jinhan also felt certain political pressure in the process of writing in Siku Library,and his academic activities were correspondingly affected.The content of historical textual research is an important part of Shao Jinhan’s compiled manuscripts.He carried out extensive textual research by means of the methods of school,school,other school,stone,taboo and so on.Through the case study of the Hanshu and Wei Shu,it can be found that there are certain differences between their historical textual research and the traditional Qianjia-Jia historical textual research,and Shao Jinhan is good at conducting textual research from the perspective of historical jurisprudence and historiogists’ micro meaning,which is his characteristic.Its historical textual research has its outstanding value of "distinguishing the academic seal and examining the origin of mirror".Shao Jinhan’s historical textual research in the sub-compilation manuscripts is closely related to his own experience and attitude towards the textual research,which is not entirely caused by the textual atmosphere and the regulations of the writing of abstract in the four libraries.Shao Jinhan paid attention to the righteous examples,but at the same time he had the thought of not detaining the historical examples,and he stressed that changing the general historical examples could not affect the documentary function of historiography.He praised highly the historical method which has been passed down by historians for a long time and analyzed the gains and losses of historical books from this perspective.Shao Jinhan paid attention to the motive and meaning of the history written by historians,and explored the micro meaning of the previous historians,and expressed his personal remarks by using the divided manuscripts.SHAO Jin-han’s historical thoughts,such as supporting the style of education,paying attention to the cause of controlling the chaos,the trace of flourishing and abolishing,and attaching importance to the laws and regulations,showed a strong historical orientation and adhered to the tradition of eastern zhejiang scholars in applying history to the world.Shao Jinhan’s compilation manuscripts have the remarkable feature of many comments on praise and criticism,which is an important way for Shao Jinhan to elucidate his own views on historiography and show the function of historiography,so it can not be discarded.Facing the trend of increasing differentiation between praise and derogation and reality-seeking,shao jin-han tried to adjust the two aspects of theory and practice,and tried to realize the unification of praise and derogation and reality-seeking,which was obviously different from the fashion of qian-jia period and showed his historiography characteristics.In terms of academic purpose,Shao Jinhan did not specialize in Sinology,but advocated the establishment and practice of Song Studies.In the period of the great prosperity of textual research,Shao Jinhan did not lose his essence as a historian in the east of Zhejiang.