阮元的一生仕途显赫,在许多地区担任封疆大吏。治政之余,他为各地振兴文教、发展学术做出突出的贡献。他主持编修《广东通志》、《云南通志稿》、《扬州图经》,并为多部志书写序,这些工作反映出他的方志理论。阮元主张后人修志要保留前志的内容,繁简适宜,提倡在志书中设立事志,重视图在志书中的作用。他不主张志书中的详近略远,反对横生议论。他主持编修的《云南通志稿》篇目编排有序,重点突出,反映了云南的地方特色;著录了大量云南地方文献,并在志中保存了一批诗文;《云南通志稿》还设立《杂志》,记载了云南的古迹、冢墓、轶事和异闻。 Ruan Yuan’s lifetime career prominent, in many areas as the Territory Dali. In addition to his administration, he made outstanding contributions to the rejuvenation of culture and education in various places and to the development of academic fields. He presided over the compilation of “Guangdong Annals”, “Yunnan Tongzhi Manuscripts” and “Yangzhou Illustrated Books”, and wrote a number of books for prefaces, which reflected his theory of chronicles. Ruan Yuan advocates future generations to repair the contents of the former Chi Chi, simple and appropriate, to promote the establishment of ambition in the Chi book, emphasis on the role of the map in the Chi book. He does not advocate the book slightly closer, against all talk. He presided over the compilation of “Yunnan Tongzhi draft” articles arranged in an orderly, focused, reflecting the local characteristics of Yunnan; recorded a large number of local literature in Yunnan, and save a group of poems in Zhi; “Yunnan Tongzhi draft” Also set up “magazine”, recorded in Yunnan monuments, tombs, anecdotes and differences.