钱元昌及其《粤西诸蛮图记》考述

Research on Qian Yuanchang and His Ethnic Groups of Yuexi

雍正《广西通志》收录的《粤西诸蛮图记》,如实记述当时诸蛮习性、分布以及治理状况,是研究清代广西民族史的重要史料。作者钱元昌在柳州、桂林任过知府,是个"务实型"官吏,又是位功底深厚的文人,今在国家图书馆发现他的《益翁文稿》共17篇文章尚存。与大多封建士大夫鄙夷少数民族的"异类"观形成鲜明对照,钱元昌持有一种比较平和、求真务实的理念,他将这一理念贯穿于《粤西诸蛮图记》中,并影响了后世广西地方志撰写。

Ethnic Groups of Yuexi collected in Annals of Guangxi in the reign of Yongzheng accurately recorded the habits, distribution and governance of ethnic groups, providing important historical materials for the research of the history of Guangxi ethnic groups in the Qing Dynasty. The author Qian Yuanchang used to be magistrate of Liuzhou and Guilin. He was both a practical official and a scholar whose 17 articles were collected in his Yiweng＇ s Manuscripts and are still kept in the National Library. In contrast to the ideas of most feudal literati who treated ethnic minorities as aliens, he held a rather mild and practical idea about ethnic groups and expressed his idea in Ethnic Groups of Yuexi which influenced the writing of Guangxi local chronicles afterwards.