China historian. Scientific name Shu Ming, the word Zhong Mian, alias Rumao. A native of Shunde County, Guangdong Province. 1886 was born in September. When I was young, I entered two schools (Qingguangya Academy, later changed to Guangdong and Guangxi Higher Education School), studied for two and a half years, and was admitted to the preparatory department of Guangdong and Guangxi (Qingyuexiu Academy). 1908 10 entered Beijing Higher Taxation College, 19 12 graduated 12. Later, he worked as a staff member in Shanghai Jiang Customs and Guangdong Finance Department, and engaged in the textual research of plant names and Chinese and foreign history after work. 1July, 934 to1June, 935, he served as secretary and clerical director of Jinan University in Shanghai, and wrote a textual research on the industry of Buddha's going to Tianzhu, which was published by Shanghai Commercial Press 1934, thus attracting the attention of historians. From 1933 to 1937, he published many works in Sacred Heart, Fu Zhi, Jinling Journal, Sun Yat-sen University Literature and History Special Issue, among which Notes on Water Mirror and Inscription attracted the attention of some historians. 1937 was recommended by Chen Yuan to the Institute of History and Language of Academia Sinica. From July of the same year to1June of 948, he served as a full-time researcher of the institute. 1July 1948 to1July 19961July 1998, he was a professor in the history department of Sun Yat-sen University, and successively took courses such as History of Sui and Tang Dynasties, Selected Readings of Stone Carvings in Tang Dynasty, Western Learning in Han Dynasty, Early History of Mongolia and History of Sui and Tang Dynasties. He used to be a member of Guangdong Provincial Political Consultative Conference. 196 1 year1year died in Guangzhou.
Cen's hometown, Shunde, is the hometown of a famous historian in northwest China in Qing Dynasty, and his scholarship was deeply influenced by the Northwest School of History and Geography in Qing Dynasty. Cen took the authors of Waterway Records of the Western Regions, Supplementary Notes on the Biography of the Western Regions in Han Dynasty, Deng Kekao and other books as pioneers, and he has two works, namely, A Geographical Examination of the Western Regions in Han Dynasty and Deng Kekao. Cen Zhongmian was also influenced by Lao Ge, a Tang Shi scholar who died young in the Qing Dynasty. His works, A New Description of the Title of Langguan Stone Pillar, A New Textual Research on the Title of Langguan Stone Pillar, Notes on Continuing Brother's Reading the Whole Tang Dynasty, and Notes on the Four Schools of Yuanhe Surnames, all carry forward brother's unfinished business, but they have surpassed it in breadth.
Cen's most important academic achievement is to study history with epitaphs, as well as the epitaphs and postscript of epitaphs of Qing dynasty, and to describe many special meanings such as primary school, epitaph and calligraphy. Cen made use of inscriptions to research historical facts, corrected the mistakes of epigraphers in Qing Dynasty who believed in stone carvings and favored historical facts, and objectively demonstrated the value of inscriptions. In addition to the study of Langguan stone pillars, from 1936 to 1942, he wrote the History of Stone Inscriptions, the History of Zhen Shi Inscriptions and the History of Zhen Shi Inscriptions, which were later included in the Collection of Stone Inscriptions, which was published by Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House on 198 1.
In the research on the collation and interpretation of the History of Sui and Tang Dynasties, the Epitaph of Mr. Bai Juyi Zuiyin has been widely praised by scholars at home and abroad, and together with Bai Changqing's collection of false articles, Bai Changqing's collection of origin and development, and Dongfang Baiji's comments, it has made important contributions to the collation of Bai Juyi's collections. Tracing back to the source, it is pointed out that Yuan He Shi Bian is a New Tang Book. The historical origin of the prime minister's lineage table is an important discovery. In the textual research of the on-the-job official system, Notes and Supplements of the Hanlin Bachelor's Records and Two Supplementary Records of the Hanlin in Tang Dynasty are the works of Mai Chao Qing Dynasty. In the aspect of geographical textual research, The Preface to New Quan Zhi discusses the right and wrong of collation. The monographs in this field include Seeking Truth from Sui Shu, A Review of Tang History, Questioning the Lessons of Sui and Tang Dynasties, and Travels of Tang People from 1950s to 1960s. Hanshu Hanshu Hanshu Hanshu Hanshu Hanshu Hanshu Hanshu Hanshu is the first book that is very beneficial to the literary history and biography of the Tang Dynasty.
Cen's History of Sui and Tang Dynasties (1950 ~ 1953) reflects the author's unique views in A General Introduction to Sui and Tang Dynasties. For example, the study of Li Deyu, Chen Ziang and Sizhen is full of new ideas. In addition, in his later years, he also wrote History of the Yellow River Changes, Research on the System of Officers and Soldiers, Social System Problems in the Western Zhou Dynasty, Essays on the History of Two Weeks, Notes on Mozi's Guarding the City, etc. These monographs reflect the author's extensive interest in the history since the Western Zhou Dynasty and even the history of the Yellow River.
In the study of Chinese and foreign history, especially northwest history, there are publications such as Filling and Textual Research of Western Turkic Historical Materials, Collection of Turkic History and Textual Research of Chinese and Foreign History. In the search and compilation of Turkic historical materials, it has been praised by scholars at home and abroad. During more than 30 years from 40 to 75, Cen wrote about10 million words of historical works. 19 12 has published more than 80 papers, 8 monographs and 2 monographs.