Research On Deng Yuanxi’s Huang Mingshu

Since Zheng Xiao edited the Wu Xuebian,the Huang Mingshu,compiled by Deng Yuanxi,is the second private Ming History which constituted mainly of annals and biographies.The Huang Mingshu is a history of the Ming Dynasty written by Deng Yuanxi following the examples compiled in the Han Shi,which was written between the seventeenth and twenty-first years of the Wanli Period（1589-1593）,and was Deng Yuanxi’s work in his later years.The book consists of 45 volumes,consisting of two parts: Treatises and Biographies.The 11 volumes of the Imperial Treatises are divided into two parts,the Imperial Codex and the Later Concubine Neiji.The imperial code is the Ming Dynasty’s main era,which begins with the Emperor Taizu Emperor’s Code,so that the imperial records of the later emperors are different,in order to show the meaning of respect.Emperor Wen of The Second Dynasty said that in order to establish the Great Sun.Then the Imperial Chronicle was established for the emperors from Chengzu to Yingzong and from Xianzong to Sejong,but not for the Jingtai Emperor,so that it was attached to the Imperial Chronicle of Emperor Yingzong.The Later Concubines Neiji is a combined biography of fifteen empresses and empresses between the early Ming Dynasty and Jiajing,and is modeled after the Book of the Later Han Dynasty and the Empress Chronicle.There are 34 volumes,including three types,large biography,combined transmission and class transmission.Among them,the genre biography is divided into 19 kinds,involving representatives of various classes and classes in society from the upper and lower from the civil and military ministers,down to the merchants and women,on the basis of the Ming Dynasty historical records,the detailed biographies of the courtiers and the loyalty and filial piety and righteousness of the various categories,reflecting Deng Yuanxi’s theoretical thinking of emphasizing meritorious service and paying attention to the gangchang name teaching.It also pays attention to taking into account the actual situation of the Ming Dynasty,such as placing the Biography of Eunuchs before the biography of Wenwu Hundred Officials and establishing two types of biographies of Science and Psychology,which is suitable for Deng Yuanxi’s profound understanding of the phenomenon of eunuch dictatorship in the Ming Dynasty and his affirmation of the academic status of Yangming Xinxue.When Deng Yuanxi wrote the Huang Mingshu,in addition to referring to official historical materials such as the Ming Shilu and the Huangming Zuxun,he also referred to Chen Jian’s Huangming Zizhi Tongji,Zheng Xiao’s Wu Xuebian,Yang Lian’s Records of deeds and sayings about the Huming Mingchen,Fan Shouji’s Huang Ming Su Huang Wai Shi,Wang Shizhen’s Yan Zhou Shi Liao,and other contemporary historical works written by Ming people,as well as the barnyard official Ye history and poetry collections at that time,and examined them,which showed his spirit of extensively searching for and collecting knowledge and seeking truth and seeking truth.However,before he died,Deng Yuanxi died of illness and was not completely completed in his heart’s established writing plan,let alone reviewed and revised the re-appearances,abbreviations,and misprints in the book.In general,the Huang Mingshu is large in volume and rich in quotations,and in order to fully reflect the historical facts of the Ming Dynasty,it is quite innovative in style and has important academic value.some of the records in the Book of Emperor Ming have the function of correcting errors and filling gaps in the Ming Shilu,which more comprehensively shows the details of local society than the Ming History written during the Qing Dynasty,and provides a reference for later generations of scholars to compile and study the historical facts of the Ming Dynasty.And providing a reference for later generations of scholars to compile and study the historical facts of the Ming Dynasty.