Some Initial Principles for the Annotations of Historical Materials
Abstract
"Chinese History Reference" and "famous Chinese historian election" comment, you must follow some principles: Where the critical and necessary names, titles, words meaning, pronunciation, the system of all filling; and historical allusions, and Note the problem is not unrelated to the incident; comments should be concise. Names of birth and death's comments focused on, knighthoods, office, work, etc.; names which today re-orientation, belongs; the meaning of words where the meaning of words twists and turns, meaning there is a change, hidden obscure song by injection; all hard to read and uncommon words, body similar pronunciations in different words, there is a specific pronunciation of the term, are to be phonetic;'s Annals of the comments focus on the year; history of lack of taboo words, lack of pen are filling. There are some initial principles that should be abided by for the annotations in the books titled Reference Materials for General China History and A Selection of Famous Chinese History Books as following: All the key words such as the people's names, places, book titles, political system, meanings and pronunciations of difficult Chinese words should be annotated concisely and clearly to the points. The annotations for the people's name should be focused on the years of his birth and death, his official titles and his books while the emphasis for a place name is on its today's position. The words with complicated, changing and abstruse meanings should be annotated so as the uncommon and special words for the pronunciations