The archives of the Qing palace are divided into two parts, one is about the management of the central government and the other is about the life of the royal family. At present, it is kept in the Palace Museum, and its information truly reproduces the state affairs and family affairs of the Qing Dynasty, leaving us with many management methods for future generations to learn from, and at the same time constantly urging us to remember this history.
The Palace Museum has more than 700 volumes of the original archives of the Qing Palace, with a total of more than 35,000 pages. Based on an average of 8 records per page, the number reaches 320,000. In addition to the inventory of the actual furnishings of the temple, it also includes the list of accounts such as appreciation, custody, new collection, expulsion and mobile records, which are all important parts of the Qing palace archives.
The forms of archives are mainly item-by-item and tabular format: item-by-item records the name and quantity of each item one by one, and generally records one item per line; The table format is to imitate the hierarchy and order of shelves and draw a table, and then write the furnishings in the grid. It is actually a simplified form of display shelf, which is more common in books. Readers can often associate the original furnishings from the vertical and horizontal arrangement.
British philosopher Bacon said that reading more history books can make us more wise; Tang Taizong believed that studying the past history was helpful to learn the reality and manage the country better. The archives of the Qing Palace record the historical process of such a powerful Qing Dynasty from prosperity to decline, which is an indispensable part of China culture and a bright pearl in the long history of China.