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Twenty-Four Histories" is a general term for 24 ancient Chinese historical books. According to the order of the dynasties recorded by each histories, they are: "Records of the Grand Historian", "Book of Han", "Book of the Later Han", "Book of the Three Kingdoms", "Book of Jin", "Book of Song", "Book of Southern Qi", "Book of Liang", "Book of Chen", "Book of Wei", "Book of Northern Qi", "Book of Zhou", "Book of Sui", "Book of Southern History", "Book of Northern History", "Book of Northern History", "Book of Northern History", "Book of Old Tang", "Book of New Five Dynasties", "Book of New Five Dynasties", "History of Song", "History of Liao", "Jin

History, "Yuan History", "History of Ming Dynasty". The "Twenty-Four Histories" have a total of 3,217 volumes (there are re-volumes in "Book of Han", "Book of Later Han", "Book of Wei" and two "Book of Tang" and are actually 3,300 volumes), with about 47 million words (by the statistics of the proofreading of the Zhonghua Book Company). The scope of the description starts from the legendary Huangdi to the end of Emperor Chongzhen in the late Ming Dynasty, covering all aspects of ancient my country's politics, economy, military, thought, culture, astronomy, geography, etc.

The historical books of the dynasty, represented by the "Twenty-Four Histories" occupy an extremely important position in the history of Chinese civilization. The "Twenty-Four Histories" are intertwined and intertwined in the form of genealogy, biographies, tables, and chronicles, and record the historical outlines of various dynasties. At the same time, they are framed by the rise and fall of dynasties in China, reflecting China's complex historical process, making China and the Chinese nation the only country and nation in the world that has been coherent and complete historical records for nearly four thousand years. This is a precious historical and cultural heritage that the Chinese nation is proud of and deserves further development.

The "Twenty-Four Histories" of the New China was instructed by Chairman *** and personally deployed by Premier ***. The Zhonghua Book Company organized more than 100 literary and historical experts across the country, and the academic and publishing circles across the country, and the most grand ancient book compilation and publishing project in New China completed in 20 years. It is a landmark achievement representing the highest achievements of the ancient book compilation and publishing industry in the New China. The exploration and practice of the "Twenty-Four Histories" compilation work has accumulated rich experience in the collation of traditional documents, established the basic paradigm and standards for the collation of ancient books in the modern sense, and laid a solid foundation for the construction of the discipline of ancient books compilation.

When talking about the Chinese version of the "Twenty-Four Histories" in 1997, the late Chinese master Zhang Dainian pointed out:

The Wuying Palace Edition "Twenty-Four Histories" in the Qianlong era was a standard version at that time, but the Wuying Palace Edition still had shortcomings. Modern Commercial Press searched for rare books from various eras and compiled them into the "Twenty-Four Histories of Baiba", which was the best version of the "Twenty-Four Histories" at that time. However, the traditional "Twenty-Four Histories" had no punctuation and no breaking sentences, and it was still difficult to read. In the 1950s, the national leaders suggested that the historians of the country at that time gathered the "Twenty-Four Histories" to verified the "Twenty-Four Histories" and added punctuation. This was the best version of the "Twenty-Four Histories" for punctuation, and it was actually the best version of the "Twenty-Four Histories".

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Zhonghua Book Company, we specially made this set of 32-open hardcover "Twenty-Four Histories" for readers and commemoration.

Written by Sima Qian, Han Dynasty, 130 volumes.

"Records of the Grand Historian" originally had no fixed title, either "Taishigong Book", or "Taishigong Records", or "Taishigong Records", and is also known as "Taishigong". "Records of the Grand Historian" was originally a common name for ancient historical books. Since the Three Kingdoms, "Records of the Grand Historian" gradually became the exclusive name of "Taishigong Books".

The author, Sima Qian, whose courtesy name is Zichang, was from Xiayang, Zuofengyi. He was born in the fifth year of Zhongyuan of Emperor Jing of Han and died around the third year of Zhenghe of Emperor Wu of Han.

Sima Qian's father Sima Tan worked as the Grand Historian in the Han Central Government, responsible for managing royal books, collecting historical materials, and studying astronomical and calendars. Sima Tan planned to write a general history, but died before his wish was fulfilled. When he was dying, he instructed Sima Qian to complete his unfinished career.

Sima Qian was very hardworking when he was young. He began to learn ancient Chinese at the age of ten. Later, he followed Dong Zhongshu and Kong Anguo to study "Gongyang Chunqiu" and "Ancient Literature Shangshu". In the third year of Yuanshuo of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Sima Qian was twenty years old. He was full of desire to learn, and traveled all over the famous mountains and rivers of the motherland, inspected ancient sites and collected legends. Through field investigations of historical relics and historical facts before and after the founding of the Western Han Dynasty, Sima Qian broadened his mind, increased his knowledge, and made good preparations for the later compilation of "Records of the Grand Historian".

Before his death, Sima Tan handed over the important task of writing Records of the Grand Historian to Sima Qian. Sima Qian agreed to his father's request with tears in his eyes. Unlike Sima Guang's "Zizhi Tongjian", "Records of the Grand Historian" is not an official history, but a private history. He adheres to the idea of ​​"exploring the relationship between heaven and man, understanding the changes of ancient and modern times, and forming a single word".

Later, Sima Qian inherited his father's position and became the Grand Historian. He had the conditions to see a large number of books and documents and national archives, which was an indispensable condition for Sima Qian to compile the "Records of the Grand Historian".

In the first year of Taichu of Emperor Wu of Han, Sima Qian began to write "Records of the Grand Historian". In the second year of Tianhan, Li Ling led his troops to attack the Huns with Li Guangli and surrendered. Emperor Wu of Han asked Sima Qian about his views on Li Ling, so Sima Qian said that Li Ling surrendered because he was outnumbered and had no rescuers, and the responsibility was not entirely on Li Ling. Emperor Wu of Han believed that Sima Qian intended to protect Li Ling and criticized Emperor Wu of Han's beloved concubine Li Guangli, the elder brother of Mrs. Li. Emperor Wu learned that Sima Qian

When writing history books, he asked Sima Qian to review and modify the history of the Han Dynasty according to his own wishes. Sima Qian refused to obey. Emperor Wu was furious and threw him into prison. Sima Qian never changed his original intention and lived up to his father and historian's ethics. He would rather be castrated than keep the history true. About the second year of Zhenghe, the compilation work was basically completed. Many years after Sima Qian's death, his grandson Yang Yun made this immortal masterpiece with more than 520,000 words to the world.

"Records of the Grand Historian" is a general history that runs through ancient times and present. It starts from the ancient Huangdi to the first year of Yuanshou of Emperor Wu of Han, and describes the history of my country for about 3,000 years. The preface of "Records of the Grand Historian" states that the book contains twelve chapters of the biography, ten chapters, eight chapters of books, thirty chapters of aristocratic families, and seventy chapters of biographies, totaling one hundred and thirty chapters. Ban Gu mentioned in "Book of Han·Biography of Sima Qian" that "Records of the Grand Historian" lacking ten chapters. Zhang Yan of the Wei Dynasty of the Three Kingdoms pointed out that these ten chapters are "Book of Emperor Jing", "Book of Emperor Wu", "Book of Rites", "Book of Music", "Book of Law", "Chronology of Generals and Prime Ministers Since the Han Dynasty", "Book of the Sun", "Book of the Family of the Three Kings", "Book of Turtle Ce", and "Book of Fu Jin". Most of the later generations disagree with Zhang Yan's statement, but the incompleteness of "Records of the Grand Historian" is conclusive.
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