When talking about Qian in the Ming Dynasty, he wrote "Guoyan". It is said that before "Guoyan", he spent more than 20 years writing the same book. Later, it was stolen. He cried all night. Others thought he had lost his fighting spirit. Who knows, he would get up tomorrow and continue writing. , spent ten years creating "Guoyan".
Tan Qian (1593~1657), whose original name was Yi Xun and whose courtesy name was Guan Ruo, changed his name to Qian after the fall of the Ming Dynasty to express the pain of forgetting his country. He was a native of Haining. Historian during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. He was diligent and studious since childhood and was a student in the Ming Dynasty, but he never became an official in his life. His family was poor, and he supported himself by acting as a secret agent, handling literary and literary matters, and writing social articles on his behalf.
Tan Qianxing likes to be comprehensive, devoted to the sayings of hundreds of schools of thought, and is familiar with the anecdotes of the past dynasties, especially the allusions of the Ming Dynasty. Because he felt that the actual records of several dynasties in the Ming Dynasty were inaccurate, and the historical books about the Ming Dynasty written by various scholars were often superficial and inaccurate, he determined to write an authentic and credible history of the Ming Dynasty. In the first year of Tianqi (1621), he wrote "Guoyan" based on "Ming Shilu", referring to the history books of various families, distinguishing right from wrong. The first draft was completed in the sixth year of Tianqi, and was revised and supplemented one after another. "The six drafts of Yi were compiled into one hundred volumes." In the second year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty (1645), he could not bear to lose the history of the country's demise, so he visited Qiudi Bao again, and continued to supplement Chongzhen and Hongguang. Dynasty history. Two years later, the manuscript was stolen, and Tan Qian, who was in his 50s, worked hard to rewrite it. After 4 years of hard work, I finally got my wish. In the tenth year of Shunzhi's reign, he went north with the manuscript and stayed in Beijing for two years, visiting ministers, royal families, eunuchs, and ministers. He also visited many historical sites, collected the Ming Dynasty's remains, and supplemented and revised them. After the book was completed, it was signed "Jiangzuo Survivor".
Guoyan is a chronicle history book that records important historical facts of the Ming Dynasty. Talk about relocation. Tan Qian specializes in history. In view of the fact that the actual records of the Ming Dynasty have been arbitrated by historians, written in twists and turns, and many taboos are inaccurate, and the chronicles of various chronicles are often fake and redundant, he has painstakingly searched for various materials, collected widely, and strived to Credit reference. It was first compiled in the first year of Tianqi (1621), and the draft was revised six times, and the first draft was completed in six years. In the fourth year of Shunzhi (1647), the entire manuscript was stolen, and he rewrote it vigorously. It took more than thirty years to compile it into the book "Guoyan". The book narrates the history of the 317 years from the birth of Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang in September of the first year of the Tianli calendar of Yuan Wenzong (1328) to the Qing troops entering Nanjing in May of the second year of Shunzhi and the demise of King Fu's regime. The book dares to write directly about some important historical facts of the Ming Dynasty that "Ming Shilu" avoids talking about; some important events are often listed side by side with personal and expert comments. The historical facts should be carefully researched and reviewed, and the materials should have considerable reliability or reference value. The history of more than seventy years after Wanli, as well as the records of the development of the Jurchens in Jianzhou and the relationship between Jin and Tongming in the later Jin Dynasty, are especially rare in other books. The historical facts of the 17th year of the Chongzhen Dynasty, compiled based on Di Bao, local chronicles and oral materials from officials and survivors, also have important historical value. However, some of the narratives in the book are too brief, and some events are repeatedly described before and after, with different explanations. In addition, superstitious ideas such as the feudal orthodox historical view, Confucian theory of destiny, Buddhism and Taoism are also strongly reflected in the book. The original manuscript of "Guoyan" was said to be one hundred volumes, and only the manuscripts were handed down after Tan Qian's death. Later, Zhang Zongxiang of Haining, Zhejiang, based on the manuscripts of Jiang's Yanfen Caotang and Siming's Lu family's Baojinglou manuscripts, and the ten volumes of Chongzhen's dynasty were compared with each other. Supplemented and punctuated, it is divided into one hundred and four volumes, and the first volume is divided into four volumes, ending in one hundred and eight volumes. It was published in six volumes by Ancient Books Publishing House in 1958.