关键词: 方志, 演化, 区域研究

Abstract: The Chinese records are a sort of the ancient cultural heritage,embracing abundant knowlage of geography and history and showing the picture of the regional time and space substance of China.There are three stages in the process of the chiness local records, the 1th period-starting and exploring (from the period before Qin to the western Han Dynasty), the 2nd period-regional records with narration (from the Eastern Han to the Southern Song Dynasty)and the last period-the setting up of patterns (since Southern Song Dynasty)Comparing With the western patterns, the Chinese local records have the following characteristics. 1. attaching importance to the description within the region, neglecting inter-regional research, 2. Paying more attention to human activities than to natural substance, 3. having a sort of the primitive model of thinking "heaven-earth-human" system Three different patterns of the local records may be compiled, traditional data-book, regional encyclopedia and works of regional reseaches.Scholars of local records should first free themselves from the following point of view that "local records are a sort of regional history", assimilate foreign experience and do their researches more carefully, in order that the now local records will play some positive role in record history to envich edu cational material and to be used as a good reference for administration.

Key words: Chinese local records regional time and space substance regional research