There are two points in the sage's emphasis on the "outer hole": the archives of Confucius' house are private files, and emperors of past dynasties gradually gave titles to the descendants of Confucius, so the relationship between Confucius' house and the emperor became closer and closer, and the contexts were one after another, and the state capitals and offices all over the country also contacted one after another. There are 360,000 mu of land dedicated to Confucius in the Confucius House, which are distributed in hundreds of counties in five provinces. Therefore, there are many relations between the county government and Confucius, and the handling of land disputes is more complicated. Confucius' mansion is a feast duke's mansion and a first-class official. In addition to the three courtyards, there are ten offices in the house, all of which have daily office documents, plus various account books of Lin Temple, the rules of living in the house and so on. Therefore, the information is extremely rich.
The archives of Confucius House have a long history, a large number and rich connotations, and have become famous private archives in China. Due to the loss of Confucius' archives in the past, the existing archives recorded the political, economic, cultural, ideological, clan and other aspects of Confucius' mansion from the 13th year of Jiajing in Ming Dynasty (1534) to August of 1948, which lasted for more than 400 years. They are important materials for studying the feast of the Duke's Mansion in past dynasties, and precious raw materials for studying the feudal society in China, which have high historical value. In the past, the preservation of documents was scattered. All the works of Confucius at the higher and lower levels and in various counties were kept in the study room of the library, which was in charge of the ancient books officer, and mu of books, contracts and rent collection books were kept in the register room. Weddings, funerals, weddings, banquet accounts and sacrifice accounts of Lin Temple are kept in the secretarial office. Housekeeping department's daily expenses, salary accounts and guest accounts are kept in cashier's office; Submitted books, received books, sent books and sent books are all stored at the opening of the notice hall. There are prose books in the following halls: Governor's Office, Hundred Houses Magistrate, Guan 'gou Magistrate, Etiquette School, Music School and Ancient Music School. 1948 After the establishment of the Antiquities Preservation Institute in August, all these scattered documents were collected and kept in the study.
1956 In the spring, Comrade Wang, director of National Cultural Heritage Administration, came to Qufu to inspect the protection of cultural relics and found this batch of historical relics files. After returning to Beijing, an expert, Shan Shiyuan, vice president of the Palace Museum, was sent to sort out the archives, and Li Hongqing, director of the Tibetan Department of the Palace Museum, specially sorted out the cultural relics. Divide cultural relics into 33 categories, and the Cultural Management Committee will continue to sort them out in the future; Store the documents in the last five rooms, list them separately, and put them in a special library for later sorting. From August 65438 to August 0956, National Cultural Heritage Administration entrusted the National Archives to send experts from the Historical Materials Arrangement Department of Nanjing Archives (now the Second Historical Archives of China) to Qufu for arrangement, with Jin Jia as the team leader, Guo Peng and Ding Jiaxiang as members, and the Nanjing Mounting Project also participated. The first sorting work ended on September 1958. From the summer of 65438 to the National Day of 0959, Confucius resumed the exhibition, moved the archives from the back five rooms to the downstairs of Dongda University for safekeeping, and allocated 50 square camphor trees for file box protection. 1960 In the spring, Comrade Zeng San, member of the Central Committee and director of the National Archives Bureau, came to Qufu to inspect the archives work and instructed: "Don't lose a piece of paper, don't lose a word, and protect the archives." Since then, manual ear-tying has been strengthened, and the "Cultural Revolution" stopped in August 1966. /kloc-in the summer of 0/972, pasting and binding started again, and a new account was established for publishing. By 1987, more than 9200 volumes have been compiled. I will continue to sort and paste the binding in the future, and there are still some broken pages that have not been sorted. According to the auxiliary classification of Nanjing archives, * * * can be divided into eight stages (before liberation, the archives of Confucius were classified according to heaven, earth, Xuan, Huang, Yu, Zhou, flood and famine). These eight stages: Ming Dynasty, Qing Dynasty, Republic of China, Northern Warlords, Kuomintang, Puppet Manchuria, 1946 Liberation and Liberation War, began in Jia.
Each stage has its own classification, and the amount is different, the most in Qing Dynasty. The classification of each stage is: attacking India, offering sacrifices, sages, clans, genealogy, family members, temple officials, government officials, academic records, common affairs, taxation, forest temple management, corvee, criminal proceedings, court disasters, finance, documents and so on.
The contents of Confucius' archives are very rich, involving all aspects of China's feudal society.
The information on court politics recorded the royal events of the feudal dynasty, such as accession to the throne, building a library, governor, collapse and death, matching the orange temple with the sky, royal celebrations, and various ancient book recording systems. Forms include memorials, Beijing newspapers, government copies, official documents, etc.
According to the records of the sacrificial ceremony, the emperor was lucky enough to visit Queli, offering a royal sacrifice to Confucius, giving ritual vessels, plaques and sending officials to sacrifice.
According to the records of the attack on India, the descendants of Confucius were attacked with titles, set up official positions of Confucius, and also held official positions of family studies and temple studies to worship sages.
The clan data recorded the clan rules and family affairs of the clan branch of Confucius, and was exempted from taxes on the corvee.
In addition, there are forest temple management, village management and government management.