I would like to ask, how many versions of Wu 'an local chronicles are there?

Local chronicles in the history of Wu 'an, there is also a "Wu 'an County Chronicle" written by Kangxi.

Eighteen volumes of this annals * * *, with Huang as the chief editor.

The publication time of this annals is fifty years of Kangxi (17 1 1), at least the preface before this annals was written in this year.

At present, the National Library and the Henan Provincial Library have prints, and the Shanghai Library has movies.

In addition, there is another kind of local chronicles in Wu 'an, which was compiled by Qian in the late Qing Dynasty and published in the thirty-second year of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty (1906). Now it is collected in Jilin University Library and Hubei Provincial Library.

-For the above information, please refer to page 74 of China Local Records Joint Catalogue.

In addition, give the landlord a suggestion: search the historical data of Wu' an, or pay due attention to Cizhou Zhi or Zhangdefu Zhi.

Before the Ming Dynasty, Wu 'an belonged to Cizhou, Hebei Province, and this ownership remained unchanged throughout the Ming Dynasty. In the fourth year of Yongzheng in Qing Dynasty, Wu 'an area was changed to Zhang Defu.

The compilation of local chronicles is mainly concentrated after the Ming Dynasty, so there will be some relevant historical materials in Wu 'an area in Cizhou Annals compiled from the early Ming Dynasty to the early Qing Dynasty and Zhangdefu Annals compiled after Yongzheng in the Qing Dynasty. Especially in the dating period recorded in some county records, there may still be valuable information in the county records and the government records at the next higher level.

For example, from the early Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty before Yongzheng, there were four kinds of engravings: Jiajing, Wanli, the thirty-second year of Kangxi and the forty-second year of Kangxi.

Finally, I hope you don't take it amiss.

In your question, you mentioned that you collected the records of Tianqi County in Wu 'an County. I'm a little curious and confused about this.

It is said that the apocalyptic version of Wu 'an County Chronicle in the late Ming Dynasty has not been passed down from generation to generation, only the remnant version of Chongzhen has been passed down from generation to generation.

On the website of the national map, it is specially noted that this remnant of Chongzhen was carved according to the apocalypse.

If you really have the Apocalypse Edition, it is naturally a major discovery in the local literature of this city.

But there is another possibility, that is, the late Ming version you have at hand is only an engraving of Chongzhen.

In the history of the dissemination of local chronicles, all the contents of the old chronicles have been supplemented to a certain extent, thus forming a new county chronicle, which should generally be called the new edition.

In the seventh volume of the National Map of Chongzhen, under the guidance of Zuo, Zhang Renzu and Zhang Yizu appeared in the first year of Chongzhen (see above).

We know that it is impossible for the records compiled during the Apocalypse years to appear in the records during the Chongzhen years. This proves that this version must be a work of Chongzhen or after Chongzhen.

From the aspects of seal cutting, this is not a supplementary seal cutting on the old version of Apocalypse, but a set of versions re-carved during the Chongzhen period.

If you have this version of the county annals of the late Ming Dynasty, I suggest you refer to the version of the national map in the future and regard it as the Chongzhen version. Maybe this is more rigorous.

Ten days after answering the questions, it won't take you much time, at least much less than the time I spent looking for information for you. Don't you think so?