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Zhang Tingyu's "History of the Ming Dynasty and Geography" has always been famous for its rigorous style, elegant writing style, and vivid chronological colors, but omissions and errors are inevitable. These errors include errors in names, directions, times, data, affiliations and historical events, omissions of historical events, inversions, falsifications, omissions, repeated content, duplication of entries, punctuation errors, etc. Based on Wan Sitong's "History of the Ming Dynasty - Geography" and Wang Hongxu's "Manuscript of the History of the Ming Dynasty - Geography", this book extensively cites original documents such as Ming Dynasty records, political books, anthologies, notes, history books of previous dynasties, and Ming and Qing local chronicles, and is revised by Zhonghua Book Company. The more than 1,400 errors and omissions in this "History of the Ming Dynasty and Geography" have been carefully examined and corrected in an attempt to correct the source and avoid misrepresentation. This has made the best academic contribution to the improvement of "History of the Ming Dynasty and Geography" and the accurate use of historical materials by researchers.