Book/Printed Material Licheng Xian zhi : shi liu juan 歷城縣志 : 十六卷 / / Title on spine of case: Chongzhen Shandong Licheng Xian zhi / Also known as: Chongzhen Licheng Xian zhi / Chongzhen Shandong Licheng Xian zhi / Chongzhen Licheng Xian zhi
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Title
- Licheng Xian zhi : shi liu juan
Other Title
- 歷城縣志 : 十六卷 /
- Title on spine of case: Chongzhen Shandong Licheng Xian zhi
- Also known as: Chongzhen Licheng Xian zhi
- Chongzhen Shandong Licheng Xian zhi
- Chongzhen Licheng Xian zhi
Summary
- Compiled, according to the introduction written by author Ye Chengzong, at the behest of Song Zufa, Governor of Licheng County. Includes excerpts from Shan hai jing, Shuij ing zhu, Qi sheng, Tai ping huan yu ji and Er shi yi shi, as well as contemporary documents which were amended and compiled in sixteen volumes. Original title: Yiren Ye Chengzpng zhuan. Includes prefaces by Cai Maode and Song Fazu, ca. 1640.
- Gazetteers such as the one presented here are local histories with detailed descriptions of a certain locality, typically a province, a city, or a county, at a certain period. They provide in-depth information and sources for the study of Chinese history, geography, local economy, culture, language and dialects, biographies, and the administration of local government. Licheng, situated south of Mount Li, can trace its history back to the state of Qi during the Spring and Autumn period (770-476 BC). During the Ming dynasty, the county was under the administration of Ji'nan Prefecture and was a political center of Shandong Province. The author of this gazetteer was Ye Chengzong (1601-48), a native of this county. Ye Chengzong received his jin shi degree in 1646 and became the magistrate of Linchuan, Jiangxi Province, where he helped provide relief in the famine, opened granaries to provide the population with grain, requested delays in taxation, and established a school to educate the local people. In 1648 when Linchuan was seized by the army of a Ming general who surrendered to the Manchus, he was captured, but he refused to surrender and committed suicide. This 1640 printed edition was compiled by Ye, as indicated in his preface of the same year, in which he wrote that he began the work at the request of Song Zufa, magistrate of Licheng. He collected contemporary documents, classical works, and works by renowned scholars; made corrections; and added supplements. Two other prefaces were written by Zai Maode (1586-1644), a late-Ming official, and Song Zufa, the magistrate, also dated 1640. The subjects covered include territory and history, temples, arches and gateways, taxes and levies of service, officials, schools and social customs, military affairs, personalities, women who preferred to die rather than remarry, arts and literature, and book collecting. The work contains maps and landscapes. World Digital Library.
Names
- Ye, Chengzong, jin shi 1646
- Cai, Maode, xu
- Song, Zufa, xu
- Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published
- [China : s.n., Ming Chongzhen 13 nian, 1640]
Headings
- - Licheng Xian (Shandong Sheng, China);
- - 歷城縣 (Shandong Sheng, China)
Notes
- - Title from caption.
- - 九行二十字. Nine lines, with twenty characters per line.
- - 十六冊四函. Sixteen volumes in four cases.
- - 原題：「邑人葉承宗撰。」自序云：「邑侯〓水宋公來歷下，他務未遑，首詢邑志。既念舊乘殘失，亦復荒略，躬造余廬，俾肩斯任。余以年非耆碩，學未淹博，名不出里門，拜手固辭。黽勉受事，乃同人，蒐群書，簡舊乘。因取爾雅山海經水經注齊乘通志寰宇記二十一使諸名家集，又取近日名傾鄉彥，忠孝節烈，下至災祥兵變，及他學士記，父老傳聞，編摩所至，而舊乘所存，遂無幾矣。綱十一，其目四十有九，合圖為五十，凡十六卷。」蔡懋德(序)崇禎十三年 (1640)，宋祖法 (序) 崇禎十三年 (1640)，自序 崇禎十三年 (1640).
- - 明崇禎間刻本. Ming Dynasty woodblock print, ca. 1640-1644.
Medium
- 16 v. : maps
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2012402151
Online Format
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