当代正在志坛风行的方志评论,有着悠久的历史传统.稽查书籍文献记载,最初见于唐代著名训诂学家颜师古等人对魏晋以来地记之类志书的批评.颜师古注《汉书·地理志》时称“中古以来,说地理者”所纂述的方志,存在了“竞为新异,妄有穿凿,安处附会,颇失其真”的弊病.李吉甫在《元和郡县图志》自序里,也指出了“尚古远者或按搜而略今,采谣俗者多传疑而失实,饰州邦而叙人物,因丘墓而征鬼神,流于异端,莫切根要,至于丘壤山川,攻守利害,本于地理者,皆略而不书”的积弊.著名史学评议家刘知几在所著《史通》一书中,对旧史志失实和浮夸之处,对志书的诸多缺失,也曾样加评论,多所指陈.他批评说:“郡书者,矜其乡贤,美其邦族”;“地理书者,人自以为乐土,家自以为名都,竞美所居,谈过其实”;“都邑簿者,如宫阙、陵庙、街廛、郭邑”,有的“烦而且滥.博而无限.”这些事实表明;唐代已开了评论志书的风气之先.从所评所论可以看出,当时的方志评论,形式限于概括性的统评,内容则多用指瑕说疵. The contemporary commentaries on the chronological popular commentaries have a long history of tradition.Induced by the books and records of the examination, the criticism was first seen in the Shi Ji books since the Wei and Jin Dynasties such as Yan Shigu and other famous scholars of the Tang Dynasty. “Han geographical geography” when called “since the Middle Ages, said the geographer” by the compilation of the local history, there is a “competing for a new and unique, improper wear and tear, security at a loss, quite wrong.” Li Jifu in the “ Yuan and the county map ”self-introduction, also pointed out that“ the ancient ancient or according to the search and slightly this time, the folk folk more suspicion and false, decorated state and Syrian characters, because of the tomb and ghosts and gods, in the Heresy, Mochengen, as far as hillsides, offensive and defensive interests, the geography, are all not the book, ”the shortcomings of the famous historian Liu Chi in his book“ Stratton, ”a book on the old history The book is not accurate and exaggerated, many of the lack of books, have also comments, many refer to Chen He criticized: People think they are paradise, home self-righteousness, competing beauty home, talked about “,” metropolis bookkeepers, such as palace, temple, street, Guo Yi “, some” annoying and indiscriminate. These facts show that the Tang Dynasty has opened the commentary on the ethos of the book.From the commentary can be seen, then the local commentary, the form is limited to a general review, the content is more flawed flawed.