The Text Generation of Biographies of Official History in the Northern Song Dynasty——Centered on the Collection of Biographies of Official History in Xin'an Local Chronicles
The Text Generation of Biographies of Official History in the Northern Song Dynasty——Centered on the Collection of Biographies of Official History in Xin'an Local Chronicles
Almost all the original books of the official compilation of national history in the Song Dynasty have been lost,and only the remnant volumes and chapters of the Record of Song Taizong can be found in the quotations of existing documents.However,Xin'an Documentary Records in Ming Dynasty contains biographies with the historical origin of National History Biography.Through the text comparison of the surviving Rili and the Records of Song,it can be seen that a large number of text changes in the compiling process from the Biographies of the Records of Song to the History of Song,and the text changes had already occurred when National History Biography was compiled,not during the compiling of the History of Song.These findings can outline some dynamic features in the text generation process of National History Biography in the Song Dynasty,which provides new literature materials for studying the text generation of National History Biography edited by officials in the Song Dynasty.