明清时期山东私修方志述论

Narrative Comments on Privately Compiled Local Records in Shandong of the Ming and Qing Dynasty

明清时期是山东私修方志发展的鼎盛时期,在种类、数量、体例和内容上都达到了历史的顶峰,具有很高的价值。私修方志保存了大量的地方文献,是官修方志重要的参考资料,补充了官修方志之不足,并且纠正官修方志中的错误,它还提供了大量的其他史书所未载的地方史料。但私修方志也存在着明显的缺点,如时空分布不平衡;体例混乱,内容繁简不一;考证不够精详,多有溢美之词等。

The Ming and Qing Dynasty is the peak period of development of privately compiled local records in Shandong,which reached the historical pinnacle in terms of variety,volume,style,and content,with very high value.Privately compiled local records preserved a great number of local documentations,providing important reference materials,amending insufficiencies,and correcting mistakes in government sponsored local records.Privately compiled local records also provided a great number of local historical materials not recorded in other history books.However,there are also manifest deficiencies in privately compiled local records,for example,imbalance in the disposition of time and space;chaotic styles and disorderly redundant or oversimplified contents;textual criticism in lack of profoundness and details,and excessive praises.