He is a native of Shexian County, Anhui Province, with a single name and a cloud pavilion.

In the history of local chronicles, there is often a division of responsibilities between editing and compiling. Generally speaking, being a local official in a certain place can promote the compilation of local chronicles and is willing to pay for the publication of block copies, which is considered a good official. If it happens that this chronicle was completed during his term of office, then the position he named in the chronicle is "Major". Generally, there is another person who writes this chronicle, either a respected local squire, an official of the county government or a local scholar, such as discipline and teaching. This person's position in the chronicle is "editing", which is generally called "editor-in-chief" today, which is equivalent to what we call "editor-in-chief" of a book today.

Hu Yi is the editor-in-chief of this Qianlong edition of Tianmen County Records, and the editor-in-chief (or editor-in-chief) is Zhang Biao.

Generally do local chronicles directory, most will write like this:

Qianlong's Tianmen County Records, Hu Yi? Xiuer, Zhang's bodyguard? Compile.

However, the catalogue of local chronicles has been widely circulated, and distortion and distortion will inevitably occur. Later, people who plagiarize or quote will copy it because they don't know its style. Xiulian wrote it together and became a new name: Hu Yixiu. Then he mistakenly wrote the chronicle, which was compiled by Hu Yixiu.

In the 29th year of Qianlong (Shen Jia, 1764), Hu Yi, the magistrate of Tianmen County, wanted to compile a new county chronicle for the county. However, this specific compilation work needs someone to do after all, so he ran to consult with Zhang's bodyguard.

Zhang Bi is a native of Huiji County, Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province. Qianlong was a scholar for seven years, and served as the magistrate of Yingcheng County, Anhui Province for sixteen years. For various reasons, Qianlong was dismissed from office in 21 years. From then on, Zhang Biao could no longer be an official, and his family was tired and heavy. He had to look for connections everywhere and work as a teacher in some universities to support his family. This year, when Hu Yi wanted to write a chronicle for Tianmen County, Zhang Bi happened to come to Tianmen County and give a lecture at Tianmen County Academy.

Every county in the Qing Dynasty generally had academic officials such as discipline and teaching discipline, which is equivalent to the director of the county education bureau today. However, these people either have no practical knowledge, or just muddle along, wait for death to pass the time and refuse to do the specific work of compiling records. The Tianmen Academy, where Zhang Bi worked, gave a lecture, which is probably similar to the post of principal of today's county model middle school, but he is not an official, and he has to listen to the instructions of the official, otherwise even the job may be aborted by the official, and he will have to repair the record.

It happened that Zhang Biao had an only son who followed his father as a teacher in Tianmen Academy. This person is born with a pockmarked face, nicknamed "Zhang Pockmarked" and looks ugly. Zhang Mazi is not very good at reading, but he is still interested in traveling around. He took his father's hard-earned money and went to Shaanxi for a walk the year before last. Now I live in my father's dormitory.

This year, Pockmarked Zhang was twenty-seven years old and didn't even get into Juren. He is just a scholar. It happened that he was interested in compiling records. Hearing that the county was going to compile records, he excitedly wrote a big article called "Ten Discussions on Compilation Records", all of which were guiding opinions from a strategic height. If you want to do this or that, how should you compile it? Why not compile it? The local people in Tianmen county don't know who he is. Even if he is the editor-in-chief of local chronicles, he may not take his son's words seriously-how can his son teach Lao Tzu?

In the thirty years of Qianlong (Yiyou, 1765), the Tianmen County Annals edited by Zhang Bi was compiled and published, and the history was called the Yiyou edition of Tianmen County Annals.

There are not many original versions of this chronicle. According to the joint catalogue of China local chronicles, there are only nine books, and even the National Library of China doesn't collect this book today.

Fortunately, this chronicle has a certain popularity because it has a certain relationship with Pockmarked Zhang, so later generations have one Shi Yinben after another. Among them, the printed version in the Republic of China used multi-color overprint, which made the chronicle look colorful and beautiful.

Here is a picture, you can have a look at the overview of this version:

However, Zhang Mazi was not very satisfied after the chronicle. He thought he had put forward a great theory for compiling this chronicle, but it was ignored by others. Secondly, he did write several short articles for this chronicle, such as Preface to Literature and Art of Tianmen County Records, Preface to Five Elements of Tianmen County Records and Preface to School of Tianmen County Records. Although the articles are all like bean curd dregs, he thinks his articles are great, but his father took them directly without giving him a name. At the front of the whole book, there is a list of all editors, including his name. So when he wrote to his grandson, Zhang Runan, he said bitterly: What a good article I wrote for this county chronicle was changed by a vulgar person.

The so-called layman probably refers to the editor-in-chief of this chronicle book, that is, his father.

Zhang Mazi/KLOC-was admitted to Jinshi only after 0/4 years, but his career has been unsatisfactory. He spent most of his life as an assistant, editing books and being a gunman.

Later, many years later, some boring people dug him out of the pile of old newspapers, thinking that strange goods could live in, boasting that he was a very successful local chronicler, and he became famous from then on.

His name is Zhang Xuecheng.

In the Republic of China, the Yin version of Tianmen County Records took Zhang Mazi's Ten Treatises on the Revision of Records from its Collection of Literature and History, and attached it to Yiyou County Records of Gan Long as a glorious record.

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