The compilation of SIKUQUANSHU is a big operation,while a number of books are corrected in compilation,besides that,some steles are destroyed at the same time.In the late 1770s,some"illegal"steles were wore down and reengraved in Zhili,Shanxi,and Shengjing provinces in accordance with the imperial edict of Qianlong Emperor which was ordered according to the request of Regional Commanders of Malan.In this process,some steles were wore down or rewritten,some villages changed names,and some bronze statues were destructed.Comparing with destructing books,the goal of changing steles was to control the grass-roots level of society at that time.These were important measures of cultural control in the Qing Dynasty,which affected the preservation of folk literature and the spread of folk culture.These actions are an expansion of the destruction of SIKUQUANSHU,indicating that in the late period of imperial China,the means by which the government controlled local society were diversify and deeper.
关键词
乾隆朝/《四库全书》/磨改碑碣/文化控制
Key words
the Qianlong era/SIKUQUANSHU/destorying and reengraving steles/cultural control