《皇明启运录》与明兴史事的书写

HUANGMING QIYUNLU and the Historical Writing about the Founding of the Ming Dynasty

陈建《皇明启运录》是继吴朴《龙飞纪略》之后,第二部系统记载明太祖一朝史事的私修编年史,也是明代中期士人藉以了解明初历史的最重要的一部著作。《启运录》的编撰,并非如成说所谓以《龙飞纪略》为蓝本,而是基本上未参考吴著,独立撰成。它的成书,主要体现了明代史学不断积累与发展的内在脉络。《启运录》博采群籍,包括官修史乘、杂史、方志、文集乃至小说家言,但并未参考《明实录》。它对史事考辨不甚措意,其史料取舍主要围绕"开国"的主题和资治的宗旨,为了表彰人物和论说事理的需要,常常不严格遵守编年体的体例,有时甚至对历史进行有意无意的建构。《启运录》对明兴史事的书写,反映了明代中期政治与学术的某些面相。

As the second private chronicle that systematically records the historical events of the period of Ming Taizu after Wu Pu’s LONGFEI JILUE, Chen Jian’s HUANGMING QIYUNLU is the most crucial work to understand the early Ming Dynasty history for his contemporaries. It was not based on Wu’s work as scholars previously understood, but is an independently compiled. It reflects the internal context of the accumulation and development of historiography in the Ming Dynasty. Extensive volumes of books were used to contribute to the compilation of this chronicle, including official history, miscellaneous history, local chronicles, anthology, and even novelist’s words, but MINGSHILU was not one of them. For the theme of "founding the country" and the idea of governing the country, Chen did not strictly abide by the chronological style or law of the discrimination of the material, and he sometimes even made up facts. This work reflects some aspects of politics and academics in the middle Ming Dynasty.