浙江史学在历史上引人注目,乃在于它有著名的浙东学派的存在。浙东学派出名的时期是南宋和前清,元明时期声望弱些。浙西史学和浙东史学相比,总的说来要逊色的多。但明代中期尤其是嘉靖以后一段时间,浙东史学却不及浙西史学,浙江史学的发展重心是在浙西三府,而不是浙东八府。这种情况的出现,可能和明代文化发展的地域特点有关,明代文化的发展中心在北是北直隶,在南是长江下游,即南直隶及苏、松、杭、嘉、湖五府。长江下游地区是当时全国经济、文化最发达的地区,而浙东则在这个文化区的外围,相对说来落后一些。所以,明嘉靖以后,浙江史学的发展中心,也自然而然地移到了浙西。朱仲玉先生曾作《明代浙 Zhejiang historiography attracts attention in history because of its existence of the famous East Zhejiang School. The famous period of East Zhejiang School was the Southern Song Dynasty and the former Qing Dynasty, the Yuan and Ming Dynasties prestige weaker. Western Zhejiang historiography and Zhejiang Eastern historiography, in general, to be inferior. However, in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, especially after Jiajing, eastern Zhejiang’s history was less than Western Zhejiang’s historiography. The focus of the development of Zhejiang historiography was in the Three Provinces of Western Zhejiang, not the Eight Eastern Provinces of Eastern Zhejiang. The emergence of this situation may be related to the regional characteristics of the Ming Dynasty’s cultural development. The development center of the Ming Dynasty’s culture was Bei Zhili in the north and the lower reaches of the Yangtze River in the south, namely, Nanzhi and the five prefectures of Su, Song, Hang, Jia and Lake . The lower reaches of the Yangtze River was the most economically and culturally developed region of the country at that time, while the east of Zhejiang was relatively outdated in the periphery of this cultural zone. Therefore, after Ming Jiajing, the development center of Zhejiang historiography also naturally moved to western Zhejiang. Mr. Zhu Zhongyu was made "Ming Dynasty Zhejiang