Traditional village annals

Local chronicles is the abbreviation of local chronicles, also called local chronicles.

Records have their own specific style. It is different from literary style, argumentative style, official document style, science and education style, news style, and also from general historical writings, that is, the so-called historical style.

Local chronicles describe historical facts and present situation, and the development process of things. It takes truth as its life, and absolutely does not allow any fiction and falsehood, nor does it allow so-called "reasonable imagination". It requires seeking truth from facts, writing straight, describing things truly and objectively, and the recorded content should stand the test of the times and history. Local chronicles need not be described by literature.

The principle of local chronicles is to "record and ignore". Views can not be expressed by arguments, can not be clearly put forward by the author in the form of arguments, and must be expressed by historical materials. Historians' views and tendencies on the objective situation should be naturally revealed in the description of the facts and praised and criticized in the facts.

Local chronicles can only be recorded with a large number of authentic materials, and cannot be based on references or scientific axioms and laws. The focus of local chronicles is "recording", winning with data, not relying on comments and arguments. Local chronicles should let readers draw their own conclusions through a large number of conclusive facts. Of course, there can be a "finishing touch" pen, but it should be just right.

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The nature and characteristics of chronicles

In nature, local records belong to local documents. From the disciplinary point of view, it belongs to the category of history in a broad sense, because they are all books that record past deeds. Although the record is detailed in the present and slightly ancient, it mainly records the present, but it still records what has happened and does not write about the future.

Characteristics of local chronicles: regional, epochal, encyclopedic, continuous, knowledgeable, reliable, ideological, scientific and universal.

Records include:

1, Miscellaneous Notes on Mountain View Personnel. Describe scenery and people.

2. Mainly taking notes, he is characterized by short length, about 1000 words. Rich in content, there are historical anecdotes, anecdotes, literary essays, character essays, reading miscellaneous notes and so on.

In addition, there are travel notes, which are a form of prose describing travel experiences. This is the style of Yueyang Tower.

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