Taicang Local Chronicles and the books of the genealogies have recorded such South Song high ranking officials’life in exile in Taicang as Chen Yizhong,Wen Tianxiang,Zhang Shiqi and Lu Xiufu as well as the life of their family members and descendants.

Combined with the characteristic of local chronicles in library, some proposals how to develop and use them in our library are presented in this paper.

It indicates that neither Sima Qian mentioned Xu Fu s stay at Cixi in his Historical Records nor the local chronicle of Cixi ever documented the fact or any legend of Xufu s sail to Japan at the foot of Mount Dapeng.

The possible climatic impact of the eruption to China is investigated by consulting the Chinese historical local chronicles.

The Text World of Local Knowledge——On the Compilation Headstream of Guizhou Chorography;

The development of chorography must adapt to the change of information times.

Overall computation with the modern astronomical program reveals that at most 83% of the lunar eclipse records of the Qing dynasty in local chorography are reliable.

Value of Chinese Local Chronicles as Social History Data;

Brief Exposition of Using Local Chronicles in the Study of Literature and History

China has a vast variety of local chronicles,some of which are dated far back in time.

This article introduces how we collect the documents of local history,and raises new ideas and methods to do it well.

Local documents,the representatives of which are genealogy and local history,not only have the value of recognizing the general local history and culture,but also have significance for compiling the local literary history,learning the course of studying and understanding the ancient literature of the public,as well as researching the important academic problems of the literary history.

With the development of the two books, some people think that there is no need to publish local history if there is a local yearbook, or vice versa, because they can be replaced by each other.