Memorabilia is a kind of archival reference material that briefly describes major events and important activities in a certain range in chronological order. Memorabilia concisely outlines the historical track of the development of a region, an institution or a certain aspect, which has important reference value for practical work and historical research.

1, memorabilia type

2. Writing style of memorabilia

(1) chronological style

That is, memorabilia written in chronological order of year, month and day. Its advantages are that it only needs to put the events after the corresponding time, and it is easy to compile and write, with clear time sequence and easy overview. Ensure that the same event or related events are separated.

(2) Chronicle-Ending Posture

That is, write short articles or entries with the occurrence, development and end of events as the key link, and then arrange them in chronological order. The advantage is that the narrative events are relatively complete, but the disadvantage is that the connection between events in the same period is difficult to reflect, the time overlaps, and the time series is not well organized.

(3) the ending style of chronicles

That is to say, the memorabilia compiled by combining the time series recording method with the event beginning and end recording method has both the advantages of chronological style and chronological style, which can make up for their shortcomings, but it is difficult to compile.

Generally speaking, the chronological style is the main style, with the first half written in chronological style and the second half written in chronological style.

3, the choice of memorabilia

Memorabilia must first determine the time limit (starting and ending time) and the empty scope (the scope and nature of major events, etc.). ) memorabilia. The second is to find and collect files related to determining the scope, and select "major events" that meet the standards from the files according to certain procedures. Finally, the selected events are arranged in a factual way.

The material selection content is as follows:

(1) far-reaching events; Important events within the scope of an organization (region, field or individual) have certain influence on the subsequent development. Such as historic meetings, the formulation, promulgation and implementation of important laws, principles and policies, major political and economic reforms, important activities, various natural disasters and major emergencies.

(2) Major events; The selected major events play an outstanding role in administration, commerce, culture, law and education, mainly providing reference for future work, supporting historical research and providing materials for educational propaganda and cultural inheritance.

③ The "great event" is a relatively important event; The selection of major events should fully consider the compilation purpose, function and types of memorabilia, and be consistent with them.

Based on the above aspects, we should pay attention to three aspects when selecting materials:

First, highlight your own activities and conditions;

Second, select major events according to the nature, tasks and main functions of the organization;

The third is the "great event" that reflects the central work and important events in a certain period.

4. Material selection steps of memorabilia

(1) primary election: strive for complete information, strive to collect all important and important materials, and expand the collection scope if necessary.

(2) Inspection: select the essence from the primary materials, discard the false and retain the true, simplify the complex and strive for perfection.

③ Material selection: ensure the authenticity, accuracy and completeness of the materials, and strictly examine and verify them to ensure that they are correct.

5. The content structure and writing method of memorabilia.

Memorabilia generally consists of cover, preface, table of contents, text, comments, notes and appendices in a certain order.

(1) cover: the cover consists of the title (title), the date of entry, the editing unit or editor, the date and year of compilation, etc.

(2) Preface: also known as preface, editorial notes, etc. The general description of the compilation of memorabilia mainly includes: the purpose and significance of the compilation of memorabilia, the guiding ideology and principles of the compilation of memorabilia, the time limit of memorabilia, the selection criteria, the source of materials, the value of archival historical materials, the structure of memorabilia and other situations that need to be explained.

(3) Table of Contents: also called table of contents, which helps readers to find the clues of main items. The table of contents is arranged in the same style as the memorabilia, that is, the pages where the memorabilia are located are listed in the order of the memorabilia in the text.

(4) Text: It is the main part of memorabilia, consisting of items, the time when the event occurred and the description of the event. Each item expresses the time, place, people, data, development process, causality and other contents involved in the event in concise words.

Time of major events: try to be accurate and specific. Generally, the year, month and day of occurrence should be indicated, and some very important times should also be indicated as hours, minutes and seconds. For historical events, in addition to the year number of the AD, the year number of the dynasty at that time should also be indicated. For unmarked or inaccurate events, they should be marked after textual research.

Description of major events: Description of major events is a description of historical facts and the most important part of memorabilia. The general requirement is to describe the selected major events in a concise and accurate language in the form of an event, revealing the characters, development process, results, causality, key data and other elements of the event, that is, comprehensive, complete and detailed. When more than one event is recorded, it should be recorded in a separate project and section.

◆ Item arrangement: After the items are written, arrange them in chronological order. The arrangement method is as follows:

① Arrange major events in chronological order (year, month and day). If the date is accurate first and the date is unclear and attached to the end of the month, it is called "yes month" or "this month". If the month is unclear, it is attached to the end of the year, which is called "the year" or "this year". If the year is unclear, it is generally not recorded.

(2) If it is a major event that occurs at the same time, it can be arranged by time, minute or importance.

(3) if a major activity lasts for a long time, it should be arranged according to the end date.

(4) If some memorabilia have a long time span and more contents, they can be divided into several historical periods for reference and utilization, or they can be divided into several categories first and then arranged in chronological order.

(5) Remarks and notes:

Notes and notes are written to guide readers to read and facilitate users to correctly understand the contents of major events.

(1) For memorabilia written by historical period or category, you can add a note before each period or category to briefly introduce the historical background and main points of this part.

②? Some historical words in memorabilia have specific meanings or people, names and backgrounds are not familiar to modern people, so they are explained by notes.

(6) Appendix:

Appendices refer to bibliographies, indexes of major disciplines, index of names, index of place names, maps of administrative divisions, etc., which are compiled after the text for the convenience of readers according to the contents of memorabilia and the characteristics of readers.