编修地方志是中国的传统,从隋朝形成定期编修制度以来,至今已经有一千三四百年。期间虽然民间也有一些个人或团体、单位修过地方志,但是总体来说,编修一个行政区域的地方志是官方的事情,属于官员的职责之一。千百年来,县级以上政区需要修志已经成为传统,各级官员重视修志的事例 Editing local chronicles is a Chinese tradition. Since the Sui Dynasty began its regular editing system, it has been 13,400 years. Although there are also some individuals or groups of people in the period, the unit has been rehabilitated into local history records. However, as a whole, it is official to compile local records of an administrative area and it is one of the duties of officials. For thousands of years, it has become a tradition for the local administrative regions at or above the county level to become a traditional practitioner, and officials at all levels attach importance to the case of making records