《思潮志》立项已经近三年,三年来,《思潮志》的撰写一波三折,而此一波三折的过程则始终伴随着思考和探索,将其间的思考和实践书之于笔,借《清史研究》一席之地刊布,不仅可求教于学界各位前辈、同仁,而且可以为新修《清史》的纂修工程留下一纸文献。一、从《思想文化志》到《思潮志》2004年,典志组专家在设计“典志”诸志时,开始考虑是否设置“思想文化志”。对于这一设想我是积极加以支持的。《思想文化志》是否可以成立,其重要前提有两点:(一)“思想文化”究竟是什么?(二)“思想文化”在清代历史中意义何在?文化学的理论认为,文化结构是可分的。由表及里,文化结构大致可分为器物文化、制度文化、行为文化、思想文化。所谓思想文 In the past three years, the writing of “Trend of Thought” has been twists and turns, and this twists and turns of the process is always accompanied by thinking and exploration, during which the thinking and practice book at the pen, by “Qing History Research” A place to publish, not only to seek advice in the academic predecessors, colleagues, but also for the newly built “Qing History” compilation project to leave a paper. First, from “ideological and cultural history” to “ideological trend” In 2004, the expert group of experts in the design of the “dictionaries” Zhizhi began to consider whether to set the “ideological and cultural Chi.” I am actively supporting this idea. Whether “ideology and culture” can be established or not depends on two important prerequisites: (1) What is “ideological and cultural”? (2) What is the meaning of “ideological and cultural” in the history of Qing Dynasty? Think that the cultural structure is divisible. From the table and the inside, the cultural structure can be roughly divided into the utensil culture, the system culture, the behavior culture, the thought culture. The so-called ideology