Vernacular version of the draft of Qing history

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Copy outside the customs (also known as the first copy outside the customs): In the process of engraving the draft of Qing Dynasty, Yuan was busy with other affairs and entrusted to help proofread and engrave the book. Jin Liang changed the manuscript without authorization, and sent 400 copies of the printed 1 100 to the northeast for distribution.

Customs version: After the original editor found it, he corrected and reprinted the original printed version left in Beijing.

Second edition (also known as the second edition of the Customs): Hou insisted on taking the Customs as the basis and published it according to the criticism of scholars at that time and some important corrections made by the Customs.

School-based: In 1950s, according to the instruction of Mao Zedong, Zhonghua Book Company launched a comprehensive and systematic Collation of Twenty-four Histories and Draft of Qing History. The works used by Zhonghua Book Company are second-hand manuscripts, and nearly 100 experts in literature and history participated in this work. Formulated new methods and styles of punctuation, segmentation and collation, and all the people involved in collation followed them uniformly. On this basis, we proofread, correct typos, fill in the remaining words, modify notes, add punctuation, divide paragraphs, and write informative collating notes. During the Cultural Revolution, the sorting work was suspended, and 197 1 resumed, and 1978 was completed. After publication, Wang Zongyan, a Hong Kong scholar, put forward some good opinions on punctuation, which were revised and reprinted by Zhonghua Book Company to correct the mistakes found in proofreading.

Collation of Qing Dynasty: The National History Museum of Taiwan Province Province cooperated with the Palace Museum to comprehensively proofread, find, supplement and correct the mistakes in material selection, writing and printing by using the original manuscript, national history manuscript, archives of Qing Dynasty and various official and folk historical materials without changing the original text. * * * Fifteen volumes with index. 1999 Reprinted by Taiwan Province Commercial Press.

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There are 536 volumes in the book, including 25 volumes of chronicle, 42 volumes of factual record/kloc-0, 53 volumes of table and 3 volumes of biography16. It records the history of 296 years (19 1 1) from the establishment of People's Republic of China (PRC) by the Qing emperor Nurhachi to the end of the Qing Dynasty.

The table can be divided into ten categories: prince list, princess list, consorts list, title official list, bachelor's chronicle, military minister's chronicle, ministry and academy minister's chronicle, Xinjiang minister's chronicle, vassal minister's chronicle and appointment chronicle.

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It is the predecessor of the Dazhui chakra and is not regarded as a book. (Zhao Erxun: Review on the Publication of the Draft of Qing History)

The manuscript of history is not the final version. I hope people all over the country will give me some advice. Fortunately, don't write collations for future revisions. (Jin Liang: Proofreading the Draft of Qing History)

Although this book was compiled after the Revolution of 1911, the editor basically wrote the history of the Qing Dynasty from the standpoint of the Qing Dynasty. Due to the large number of people and insufficient mutual care, the manuscript was not carefully checked and revised after completion, and it was not carefully proofread when it was published. Therefore, the styles are different and the simplification is improper, so that mistakes in years, facts, names and places are often visible. (Zhonghua Book Company: Notes on the Publication of the Draft of Qing History)

Most of the editors are old people left over from the Qing Dynasty, and they have a heavy attachment to the Qing Dynasty. Therefore, there are many words in the book that oppose the revolution, vilify martyrs and praise the Qing Dynasty. Secondly, at that time, the archives of the Qing dynasty had not been cleaned up, and historians could only use the original archives according to the manuscripts and related historical records in the original National History Museum, which was of low value. (Dai Yi: "Draft of Qing History")

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philology

Compilation of related historical manuscripts in Qing Dynasty and opinions from all sides