Six little-known Ming Dynasty archives
Six long-dusted memories of people's livelihood
A vivid handbook for grassroots governance
Read the real ancient China in the subtleties
The book is eloquent and meticulous with a pen.
Readers can also read from one detail after another,
Weave a complex Ming Empire. - Zhang Hongjie
"Xueba Must Die - The Beginning and End of the Huizhou Silk Case"
"The Choice of Pen and Ash - The Battle of Wuyuan Dragon Vein"
"Who Moved My Ancestral Temple-Yang Ganyuan Legal Situation"
"The World is Transparent - The Past and Present of the First Archives of the Ming Dynasty"
"The Feast of the Officials-Peng County Officials Fraud Case"
"Four Souls of Orthodoxy"
Title: "Da Ming under the Microscope"
Author: Ma Boyong
Online: 2019-01
Publisher: Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House
Location: Adult Loan (New)
Request No. K248.09/83
Ma Boyong is a writer. Winner of the People's Literature Award, Zhu Ziqing Prose Award, and Galaxy Award, he has the reputation of "Genius of Words". It was rated as "following the genealogy of historical literary creation since 'May Fourth'" and "the writing style is full of curiosity". Representative works: "Da Ming under the Microscope", "The Twelve Hours of Chang'an", "Antique Bureau", "Secrets of the Three Kingdoms", "Feng Qi Longxi", "Grassland Zoo".
Brief introduction :
This book is about six grassroots political events in the Ming Dynasty hidden deep in the pile of old papers.
The author excavated these long-sealed stories from a series of rare folk archives in the Ming Dynasty. These archives are unique wonders of Chinese history, focusing on the political lives of ordinary people and documenting them in great detail. Here, we can see the simple demands of the people, the cunning folk wisdom, the dirty methods of the officials, and the subtle art of officialdom balance, showing an extremely vivid picture of political ecology from countless real details.
These six events focus on a prefecture, a county, or even a village, and record the real political life of the lowest level of civilians: how they fought angrily when they encountered tax injustice, how they raised lawsuits when their family rights and interests were harmed, how they played with the government when political interests and commercial interests conflicted, and how they profited from fraud when the imperial court demanded the rectification of household registration......
The author tries to use a calm and restrained zero-degree narrative to biography those ants who were born in the dust and died in obscurity, and relay their voices lost in the grand history. If you want to understand the Ming Dynasty and ancient Chinese politics, you must not only focus on the court, but also hear the cries of the bottom. In the encounters of ordinary people, there are the most real laws.
Among them, the 14-episode suspenseful costume TV series adapted from the first case of this book: "The Silk Case of Daming under the Microscope" has premiered on iQiyi on February 9, 2023, starring Zhang Ruoyun, Wang Yang, Qi Wei, with a Douban score of 7.8. Ma Boyong, the screenwriter of this drama and the author of the original work, said: This drama has put a lot of effort into the details, and some netizens will compare it with historical materials when they watch it, he sighed that "the effort was not in vain", and everyone is welcome to turn on the "zoom mode" to watch the movie (during the Spring Festival) and discover more details and background in the play. After reading the whole book in the library, and then looking at its film and television presentation, it is also a continuation of "spending the New Year in the library".
Author Ma Boyong's other works guide:
1. "Too Platinum Star is a little annoying"
Adult Loan (New) Call Number: I247.5/10404
2. "Lychee of Chang'an"
Adult Loan (New) Call Number: I247.5/10402
3. "The Twelve Hours of Chang'an"
Adult Loan (New) Call Number: I247.5/4173
4. "Antiques in the Game"
Adult Loan (New) Call Number: I247.5/4681
5. "Two Beijing 15 Days"
Adult Loan (New) Call Number: I247.5/5351
6. "Dragons and the Underway"
Adult Loan (New) Call Number: I247.5/3279
7. "Secrets of the Three Kingdoms"
Adult Loan (New) Call Number: I247.5/10231
8. "The Wind Rises in Longxi"
Adult Loan (New) Call Number: I247.5/11868
9. "Prairie Animals"
Adult Loan (New) Call Number: I247.5/10231
Source: Reader Service Center Written by: Wang Yun
Editor: Fan Li Preliminary review: Wu Xiang Final review: Chen Mengxiao