清代是我国方志空前发展的时期,其间共撰成各类志书4300余部,并由章学诚等人创建了方志学。然而在清代前期,“桐城派”奠基人物方苞,在履任《大清一统志》总裁时,将治古文与治方志结合起来,提出“统一体例”、“由博返约”、“简明为要”等修志主张,对后期方志学的建立起到了奠基作用。 The Qing Dynasty is an unprecedented period of development of local chronicles, during which a total of more than 4,300 copies of various books, and by Zhang Xuecheng and others to create a local history. However, in the early period of the Qing Dynasty, Fang Bao, the founder of “Tongcheng School”, combined the treatment of ancient prose with the chronicles of governance in his performance of the “President of the Qing Dynasty”, put forward the principles of “unified style” In order to "wait for the revisionism advocate, have laid the foundation role to the establishment of the later period Zhixue.