What are the characteristics of the three books of Zizhi Tongjian, Tongzhi, and Literature Tongkao?

Zizhi Tongjian is a general history of the chronicle and belongs to the history books.

Zizhi Tongjian is a general history of ancient China, the author is Sima Guang of the Song Dynasty, the whole book from the end of the Tang Dynasty, until the period of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, a total of 1367 years of history, covering 230 years, including the Tang Dynasty, the Five Dynasties, the Northern Song Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty. This book is written on the principles of "chronicling the end of the book", "leaving no trace in history", and "not cutting down the thoughts of the people", and describes in detail the causes, processes, and results of each historical event from all aspects. It is not only a masterpiece in China's ancient history books, but also known as a masterpiece in the history of ancient China and world historiography.

Zizhi Tongjian, a multi-volume chronicle edited by Sima Guang of the Northern Song Dynasty, with a total of 294 volumes, took 19 years to complete. From the twenty-third year of King Weilie of Zhou (403 B.C.), to the sixth year of Zhou Shizong Xiande (959 A.D.), five generations later, he stopped writing, covering the history of 16 dynasties and 1362 years.

The content of the book focuses on political, military, and ethnic relations, as well as the evaluation of economic, cultural, and historical figures, and the description of the policies of the ruling class aimed at the rise and fall of the nation warns future generations. The origin of the title of the book is that Song Shenzong believed that the book "in view of the past, it has the ability to govern the Tao", and gave this name.

The history recorded in the Zizhi Tongjian is limited, starting from the 23rd year of King Weilie of Zhou (403 BC) to the 6th year of Zhou Xiande (959), a total of 1362 years.

Tongjian is a chronicle of the general history (the "Historical Records" is the first general history of the chronicle, and the "Spring and Autumn" is the earliest existing chronicle of the history book), which narrates the historical events in chronological order, explains the causes and consequences of historical events, and makes it easy for people to get a systematic and clear impression.

Zizhi Tongjian belongs to the genre of chronicles and general history. Zizhi Tongjian is a huge work edited by Sima Guang of the Northern Song Dynasty, with a total of 294 volumes and a total of 19 years to complete. The book aims at time and events, and records the trajectory of the historical development of the Spring and Autumn War to the establishment of the Song Dynasty in 1362 years.

Song Shenzong believed that this book "in view of the past events of Yinna, it has the ability to govern the Tao", so it was named "Zizhi Tongjian".

What is a chronicleChronicle is a genre of traditional Chinese history books, chronicle history books are time-centered, according to the year, month, day order to record historical events, is the ancient Chinese history of the history of the spine of the literary genre of the most long, such as "Spring and Autumn", "Zuo Chuan", "Zizhi Tongjian", "Bamboo Book Chronicle", "Han Ji", "Later Han Ji", "Guoyi" and other historical books all use the chronicle genre.

Chronicles are relatively easy to reflect the connection of various historical events in the same period, but its disadvantage is that it is not easy to concentrate on the connection before and after the same historical event, nor is it easy to write the deeds of people who are closely related to major historical events.

Summary. "Zizhi Tongjian" is the first chronicle of China's general history. "Zizhi Tongjian", referred to as "Tongjian", is a long chronicle history book edited by Sima Guang of the Northern Song Dynasty, with a total of 294 volumes and a period of 19 years.

The recorded history was written from the 23rd year of King Weilie of Zhou (403 BC) to the sixth year of the Later Zhou Shizong Xiande (959) of the fifth dynasty to conquer Huainan, spanning 16 dynasties, a total of 1363 years. It is the first chronicle of China's general history and has an extremely important place in Chinese history books.

"Zizhi Tongjian" is the first chronicle of China's general history. "Zizhi Tongjian", referred to as "Tongjian", is a long chronicle history book edited by Sima Guang of the Northern Song Dynasty, with a total of 294 volumes and a period of 19 years. The recorded history was written from the 23rd year of King Weilie of Zhou (403 BC) to the sixth year of the fifth dynasty of Zhou Shizong Li Gai Xiande (959) to conquer Huainan, counting 16 dynasties, a total of 1363 years.

It is the first chronicle of China's general history, and it has a very important position in Chinese history books.

The content of the book focuses on politics, military quarrels, and ethnic relations, as well as the evaluation of economic, cultural, and historical figures, with the aim of warning future generations by describing the policies of the ruling class that are related to the rise and fall of the country and the rise and fall of the nation.

The origin of the title of Sima Guang's "Zizhi Tongjian" is that Song Shenzong believed that the book "in view of the past, it has the ability to govern the Tao", and gave this name. It can be seen from this that the name of "Zizhi Tongjian" is not only a manifestation of the historian's governance of history with the enhancement of the consciousness of the self-source file of the capital and government, but also the manifestation of the feudal emperor's use of historiography to serve politics and increase the consciousness of stupidity and strengthening. In this book, the editor summed up many lessons for the ruler to learn from, so it is called "General Guide to Qualifications".

The Zizhi Tongjian has 294 volumes, about 3 million words, and 30 volumes of "Examination of Differences" and "Catalogue". The historical limit recorded in the "Zizhi Tongjian" starts from the 23rd year of King Wang Bo of Zhou Weilie (403 BC), and ends in the 6th year of Zhou Xiande (959) in the trap of the shed, a total of 1362 years before and after. The whole book is divided into 16 periods according to dynasties.

That is, five volumes of the Zhou Chronicles, three volumes of the Qin Chronicles, sixty volumes of the Han Chronicles, ten volumes of the Wei Chronicles, forty volumes of the Jin Chronicles, sixteen volumes of the Song Chronicles, ten volumes of the Qi Chronicles, twenty-two volumes of the Liang Chronicles, ten volumes of the Chen Chronicles, eight volumes of the Sui Chronicles, eighty-one volumes of the Tang Chronicles, six volumes of the Later Liang Chronicles, eight volumes of the Later Tang Chronicles, six volumes of the Later Jin Chronicles, four volumes of the Later Han Chronicles, and five volumes of the Later Zhou Chronicles.

Zizhi Tongjian is a chronicle of ancient China, which belongs to the history books. It is edited by the Song Dynasty historian Sima Guang, which includes the historical events from the Spring and Autumn Period of the Zhou Dynasty to the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, and has gone through more than 2,000 years of political governance, wars, social economy, culture and other aspects of the memorabilia"Famous History of China"It has had a profound impact on the historical research and cultural development of later generations.