The book is vividly compared to: depicting the picture of guizhou's talent group portrait, cracking the cultural key of Guizhou's birth of "six thousand people".
First, the author feels the great influence of the Guizhou People's Publishing House on the cultural development of Guizhou, and often pays attention to the new books it publishes, and its tweets are quite attentive, clever and beautiful, such as "Reading Gui · Read Colorful"! This book is an old book that was published fifteen years ago (by Xiao Sichun. Guiyang: Guizhou People's Publishing House, 2006.), which is currently reprinted and listed as one of the "Trilogy of Guizhou Characters of the Ming and Qing Dynasties", which shows its significance and value.
Second, "Six Thousand People in Guizhou in the Ming and Qing Dynasties" is a good book with both academic value and popular significance, which depicts a touchable and perceptible picture of Guizhou's talents, reflecting the social outlook of Guizhou's six-hundred-year-old important historical juncture by people and things, and is a good work to understand the history of Guizhou. The book highlights the overall situation of talents in a region on a large scale, is an excellent way to understand the history and culture of the region and its development context, it is more comprehensive and scientific than the scattered and individual introduction of characters, and it is also more vivid and typical than some textbooks that see things and do not see people.
Third, Liu Xuesu's preface:
Qing Dynasty historian Zhang Xuechengyun: "The history of one person can be corroborated with the history of the country and the family." Based on this revelation, the author believes that the study of China's remote areas and the study of guizhou province should expand the "history of one person" into the history of many people. It is to select dozens of people from 6,000 people, spanning the Ming and Qing dynasties, to deeply explore the family lineage, character, talent, knowledge, maverick integrity and deeds of a personal figure, and put them in the context of the political, economic, military, and cultural era of the whole country at that time, and analyze them in connection with the deep social environment such as mountains and rivers, humanities, and ethnic relations in Guizhou. Therefore, he saw both trees and forests; he wrote about his people and traced his origins, vividly depicting a touchable and perceptible picture of guizhou talents in history. It's a serious and hard job. Looking at the whole book, the literature collected in search is particularly rich, and many historical facts, stories, words and deeds, and remaining poems are widely collected and collected, and they are quite unknown to people. For example, in "Tang Shuyi, the Barrier of People's Lives", it is described that Tang Shuyi fought floods in Hubei, and when the flood rose to only three feet from the top of the dam, "it was not good to see, and he flew to the dam ... In the independent water, the soil is paid and bears the brunt of it." He also wrote that he "took a single boat, involved in the flood waves, and approved the household registration of the victims." Once, because the governor was slow to allocate the pension, Tang Shuyi "could not hold back his temperament and said angrily: 'Yao Shun is on top, and he can't bear to make my people lose everything?' That is, if there is a strict reprimand, please be alone. '', as if to hear its voice, as if to see its people. The author uses historical facts to capture these wonderful fragments and write the characters alive.
Judging from the level of merit and merit, people are inferior to each other; from the perspective of moral articles and deeds, it is difficult to distinguish between them. Because the author's criteria for selecting people are based on character, literary quality, and official character, that is, the essence of ideological character that runs through personnel affairs. Look at the shining names of the cultural figures in this book: There is Wu Zhongfan, who is "Qu Zi's Idle Yin ZePan, Zi Mei's Song And Chu Zhou"; Yang Wenqi, one of the "Nine Sons of Jinling" and "Eight Greats of Chongzhen" and martyred by his family; there are "beach culture" leaders, zheng Zhen and Mo Youzhi, who are known as the Great Confucians of the Southwest... None of their influences are measurable by worldly merits and official positions. Another example is He Tengjiao, a heroic martyr who resisted the Qing Dynasty at the end of the Ming Dynasty and was known as the "Pillar of the Southern Heavens", Zhou Zhongxuan, who developed Taiwan in the early Qing Dynasty, and the huajia family of the guizhou national bourgeois elite in the late Qing Dynasty. Their spiritual heritage also transcends time and space, beyond the name of merit. Therefore, this book is written about people, and it contains the spirit of different eras, reflecting the social outlook of Guizhou's six hundred years of important historical junctures. It can also be regarded as a reading material for understanding the history of Qian.
Fourth, Chen Futong said in the appendix to the book:
In Guizhou, in the Ming and Qing dynasties, more than 6,000 people were admitted by examination. Guizhou has always been regarded as a barbaric place by outsiders in the province, but there are so many talents produced by the imperial examination, which should be a strange thing! The method of selecting talents in the Ming and Qing dynasties was: the county, prefecture, and government examination Xiucai, the provincial examination, went to the capital to participate in the examination; after obtaining the qualification of the tribute, you could participate in the palace examination presided over by the emperor, the first of the temple examination was called Zhuangyuan, the second was called Bangyan, the third was called Tanhua, and The Zhuangyuan was also called Dianzhuo. There are more than 6,000 people, where to start? He is a low-ranking scholar, but in many aspects of scholarship, poetry and art, there are many more scholars and masters. For example, Wu Zhongfan, who was famous for his poetic historiography in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, Yang Longyou, who sacrificed his life for the Southern Ming Dynasty, Fu Yushu, who wrote the legend of "Mandarin Duck Mirror" and praised the Ming Dynasty loyal martyrs Yang Lian and Zuo Guangdou, Li Ruqian, who translated the "Biography of Washington" and first introduced the ideas of minyou, minzhi, and minxiang, Lei Tingzhen, who taught with Yan Xiu at the Jingshi Academy in Guiyang, as well as Zheng Zhen, Mo Youzhi and others. These people are all from a personal background, and their glorious deeds are all written in special books.
The cultivation of backward advances by famous eunuchs and scholars in guizhou's history, coupled with the influence of the majestic momentum of the situation in the mountains and rivers, has been nurtured by culture for hundreds of years or even thousands of years, "even if it is a rugged pass, poetry and books are always connected." The Miao poet Long Shaone of Jinping, the Yu Da father of the Shuixi Yi ethnic group, the female poets Shen Jiying, Zhou Wanru, And Luzhen, and the Buddhist Yu Song and Zhangxue successively joined forces. The afterglow of the wind and the water are sprinkled for hundreds of years. Many of Guizhou's jinshi and people have poetry collections, and some have become officials in other provinces, advocating or presiding over the compilation of zhishu, all of which are well-known in China.