What is the period of precious ancient books in Ming Dynasty?

China has written records for a long time in history. As a country whose civilization has never broken, China has the most historical preservation in the world. But because there are too many, almost every dynasty did not pay too much attention to these problems, so that the number of destroyed is not small. In addition, with the invasion of the war, many precious historical materials have been recorded in words, most of which have been burned, and only a handful of them can be completely preserved.

In modern times, precious Ming and Qing documents are put into sacks and bought as waste paper. As early as the end of the Qing Dynasty, there was a building dedicated to storing various documents of the Ming and Qing Dynasties in the Qing court, which was full of documents of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, including Ming History, Official Letters, Ju Zhu and so on. These millions of documents are piled up in several rooms.

The reason for this is that during the Qianlong period, there was experience in compiling the official Sikuquanshu. At that time, besides compiling Sikuquanshu, Ming History was revised, so these historical materials were supplemented. Later, I collected a lot of historical materials of the Ming Dynasty, including Shi Minglu. In the compilation process of Qing dynasty, the original old edition was burned after copying, so most of the historical materials left by Lu were clear manuscripts, but even so, this set of history books is still clear manuscripts.

After the end of the Qing Dynasty, because there were too many official documents, the inventory of cabinet documents could not be put down, so these files were taken out and burned. Fortunately, Luo Zhenyu, who was on duty at that time, saw it and immediately ordered people to stop it. Then, the historical materials of Ming and Qing dynasties filled with more than 8,000 sacks are preserved for future collection when the Museum of Literature and History is built. Luo Zhenyu himself was just a small official, and he was unable to keep these files after the demise of the late Qing Dynasty.

The Beiyang government later put these files in the museum, but because there is no special staff to take care of them, almost every place that can enter and leave here will steal one or two volumes to sell at a high price. Later, the Beiyang government found this pile of waste paper and immediately took it out to buy a paper mill. By the time Luo Zhenyu arrived, more than 65,438+0,000 sacks had been destroyed. It cost 13000 yuan to bring this part of historical materials back. Luo Zhenyu later sold this part of the file to Li Shengze, and Li Shengze sold it to the Nanjing government after a lot of trouble. It was not until the founding of New China that it was carefully preserved.

But in fact, a lot has been lost in the process of repeated circulation. For example, Memoirs of Ming, which we are familiar with, was actually compiled by scholars at that time after 193 1 belonged to the government of the Republic of China. This part was sent to the United States during the Anti-Japanese War, and now most of it is in Taiwan Province Province. Even the version published in mainland China is a version of Taiwan Province Province, which is already available in mainland China, with only some manuscripts and most of them.