明代西宁卫陈土司家族之始祖建构——以新见《陈氏家谱》为中心

The Construction of the First Ancestor of the ChenTusi Clan in Xining Acropolis in Ming Dynasty——A Case Study of the Newly Discovered Chen's Genealogy

明代西宁卫陈氏家族是西北地区唯一的一家汉族土司,通过考证《陈氏家谱》的记载,可以发现其始祖陈子名②的身份和历史经历了一个漫长的建构过程,其在元末并非淮南(安)右丞,应该是低级军官或一族之长;入明后,陈子名虽然参加了李文忠北伐,但功绩乏善可陈,至死也仅为小旗,并非后人所说的指挥使;陈子名丰富的历史活动乃是陈氏后人从梅思祖、李文忠等人的历史演绎而来。

The Chen Tusi Clan of Xining Acropolis in the Ming Dynasty,was the only Han Tusi in the northwestern region.Through textual research on the records of Chen's Genealogy,it can be found that the identity and history of its first ancestor Chen Ziming has gone through a long process of construction.Chen Ziming was not the chancellor of Huainan Province(Huainan)at the end of Yuan Dynasty,he may be a low-level officer or the head of a clan.In the Ming Dynasty,although Chen Ziming participated in Li Wenzhong's Northern Expedition,but lack of merit,at the time of death,he was still only the leader of the lowest level military organization.The rich historical activities of Chen Ziming were derived from the historical deductions of Mei Sizu,Li Wenzhong and others.