At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the county once had a county chronicle, and during the Jiajing period, "the old zhi was mutilated for a long time", and then it died and there was no examination for the chronicle. In the thirty-fifth year of Jiajing (1556), Yang Tingyi was in charge of Hu Lian and others to revise the zhi, and the manuscript was initially taken into shape, but for some reason it was shelved. In the forty-fifth year of Jiajing (1566), during Yang Shouzheng's tenure, Hu Lian continued to edit and revise Jiajing's "Chronicle of Chenggu County".
In the fifty-fifth year of the Qing Kangxi Dynasty (1716), Mu Xiuzhi, the governor of Chenggu County, was completed in October of the following year (1717). In the fourth year of Guangxu (1878), during Xu Dehuai's tenure, he raised funds, renewed the new zhi, and republished the old zhi. After the old journal was published, the continuation was interrupted. The extant Kangxi Chronicle of Chenggu County is a reprint of Guangxu's four-year edition. In June of the thirty-first year of Guangxu (1905), the Qing court ordered all localities to repair the local history and cultivate the "Chenggu County Rural History".
At the beginning of the 16th year of the Republic of China (1927), during the term of governor Fang Dazhu, the county chronicle bureau was established, and Gao Shipeng was appointed as the general editor of Xiuzhi. In June, he died, and the following year Fang stepped down, and Xiuzhi was suspended. In the 27th year of the Republic of China (1938), during The term of office of Yu Zhengdong, the County Chronicle Committee was established, with Zhang Shuliang as the director, and invited Li Jinxi of Northwest Normal University, Zhang Bosheng of Northwest University and many other professors to assist in Xiuzhi. Li Jinxi drafted the "Chenggu County Chronicle Continuation Work Plan" (i.e., "Fang Zhi Jinyi"), planning the layout of the article, and sincerely creating more ideas. This time, it was compiled into "Geological History", "Sub-Dam Geological History", and "Meteorological History", and collected and sorted out many data. In the following year (1939), Yu left office, but there was no funding, and the revision was suspended. Most of the archived materials "Literature/Chemistry/Revolution/Life" were destroyed.