page_title: Song Lian
hierarchical_section_title: Song Lian
caption_attribution_description: 中文: 宋濂（1310年11月4日－1381年6月20日），字景濂，號潛溪，又號玄真子，諡文憲，浙江省浦江縣人。明初政治家、文學家、史學家。方孝孺之師，曾任翰林，修《元史》。後因故被明太祖謫死蜀地。
context_page_description: Song Lian, style name Jinglian, was a Chinese historian and politician during the Ming dynasty He was a literary and political advisor to the Ming dynasty founder, and one of the principal figures in the Mongol Yuan Dynasty Jinhua school of Neo-Confucianism. As a head of the official Bureau of History of the Ming dynasty, Song Lian directed compilation of the official dynastic history of the preceding defunct Yuan Dynasty.
  The compilation of the History of Yuan, commissioned by the court of the Ming Dynasty, was completed in 1370, it formalized the official history of the preceding Chingizid Yuan Dynasty. Under the guidance of Song Lian, the official dynastic history broke with the old Confucian historiographical tradition, and established a new historical paradigm professing that the influence of history was equal in influence to the great Confucian classics in directing the human affairs.
  In Asian historiography, Yuanshi is a major source for the history of Chinese, Tungusic, Mongol, and Turkic peoples.
context_section_description: Song Lian (宋濂, 1310–1381), style name Jinglian (景濂), was a Chinese historian and politician during the Ming dynasty He was a literary and political advisor to the Ming dynasty founder, and one of the principal figures in the Mongol Yuan Dynasty Jinhua school of Neo-Confucianism. As a head of the official Bureau of History of the Ming dynasty, Song Lian directed compilation of the official dynastic history of the preceding defunct Yuan Dynasty.
  The compilation of the History of Yuan, commissioned by the court of the Ming Dynasty, was completed in 1370, it formalized the official history of the preceding Chingizid Yuan Dynasty. Under the guidance of Song Lian, the official dynastic history broke with the old Confucian historiographical tradition, and established a new historical paradigm professing that the influence of history was equal in influence to the great Confucian classics in directing the human affairs.
  In Asian historiography, Yuanshi is a major source for the history of Chinese, Tungusic, Mongol, and Turkic peoples.
caption: Portrait of Song Lian by Gu Jianlong
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