Guangdong famous Fang Zhi scholars - Huang Zuo, Guo Tang

Huang Zuo (1490-1566), courtesy name Caibo, was a native of Xiangshan, Guangdong (present-day Zhongshan, Guangdong). He was a scholar of Lingnan University in the Ming Dynasty and a famous Fang Zhi scholar.

Huang Zuo was born into a Confucian family, and both his grandfather and father were a generation of Hong Confucians. When he was young, he was famous for his strangeness, and he read the "Filial Piety Classic" at the age of four. In the fifth year of Emperor Mingwu's reign (1510), he was the first in the Nakago Examination. Zhengde fifteen years (1520), Zhongjinshi. Jiajing was first edited by Shu Jishi's Hanlin Academy. Since then, he has successively served as the Governor of Jiangxi, the Inspector of Guangxi, the Guozi Sacrifice of Nanjing, and the Shaozhan Shi. He disagreed with the university scholar Xia Yan and abandoned his official position to be raised. Xuezong Cheng Zhu, known as Mr. Taiquan. He once argued with Wang Shouren that it was difficult to know the purpose of unity of action. After his death, he was given the right attendant of the Imperial Household Department, Yuwen Yu.

Huang Zuo's works are rich and prosperous, and his life has written more than 400 volumes, "Among the Ming people, the learning is the most rooted, and the articles are hua peishi, and they are enough to look at it for a while", ("Outline of the General Catalogue of the Four Libraries") is worthy of being a university scholar in the history of the Botong Classics. His works include 70 volumes of Guangdong Tongzhi, 60 volumes of Guangxi Tongzhi, 70 volumes of Guangzhou Fuzhi, 24 volumes of Guangzhou Characters, 12 volumes of Luofushan Zhi, and 8 volumes of Xiangshan Zhi, which have left a rich heritage and made outstanding contributions to the local literature of Lingnan. Among them, the influence and role of "Guangdong Tongzhi" is the greatest, and Ruan Yuanxiu, a scholar of the Qing Dynasty, fully affirmed "Huang Zhi" in the preface.

Guo Tang (1529-1605), also known as Du Zhou and Menglan, was a native of Nanhai, Guangdong (present-day Nanhai District, Foshan, Guangdong Province). In the forty-first year of Ming Jiajing (1562), he was initially appointed as the head of the household department, and later changed to the ceremonial department. He served as the prefect of Kuizhou Prefecture, the deputy envoy of Tuntian in Huguang Province, the deputy envoy of Sichuan Tixue, the deputy envoy of Guangxi Youjiang, the constitutional government of Hubei, and the political envoy of Yunnan Right Cloth, and in the twenty-third year of the Wanli Calendar (1595), he died ten years later.

As a poet and scholar, Guo Tang has made achievements in many aspects, especially in local history. His local chronicle works include 36 volumes of Sichuan Tongzhi, 12 volumes of "Records of Fuzhou", 10 volumes of "Youjiang Dazhi", 14 volumes of "Records of Pennsylvania", 32 volumes of "Records of Guangdong University", 22 volumes of "Records of Famous Places in Linghai", and 72 volumes of "Guangdong Tongzhi", which are the most cultivated people in Guangdong history.

The "Record of Guangdong University", which took eighteen years to complete, is a monograph that records the local historical sites, characters and canonical systems in Guangdong, and the "Guangdong Coastal Map" is attached at the end of the book, which is of high historical value. The "Guangdong Tongzhi" is rich in information, scientific division, and unique in style, which is relatively rare among the zhufangzhi, and is one of the highest quality of the six existing provincial chronicles in Guangdong.