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The Book of Han, also known as the Book of the Former Han Dynasty, is the first chronicle of the history of the Han Dynasty, written by Ban Gu of the Eastern Han Dynasty, which mainly describes the history of the first year of Gaozu of the Han Dynasty (206 years ago) to the fourth year of Emperor Wang Mang (23 years), and is another important historical book in ancient China after the "Historical Records".
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The author of the Book of Han is Bangu of the Eastern Han Dynasty. In the first year of Emperor Yongping of the Ming Dynasty, Ban Gu began to privately write the history of the Han Dynasty on the basis of his father Ban Biao's "Later Biography of Historical Records". 5 years later, someone wrote to Emperor Ming, accusing him of privately changing the history of the country and being imprisoned.
Brother Banchao explained in the book that Emperor Ming read the first draft of the work, appreciated his talent, and called him to write the "Book of Han" for the Lantai Lingshi.
After a year, he was promoted to Lang, secretary of the school, and continued the compilation of the Book of Han. After more than 20 years of hard work, it was basically completed in the first seven years of Emperor Zhang's construction.
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The Book of Han narrates the history of the rise and fall of a total of 229 years from the first year of Gaozu of the Han Dynasty to the fourth year of Emperor Wang Mangdi. It truly records the historical features of the Western Han Dynasty and provides important information for understanding Chinese history.
As a historical literature, many biographies in the book are very successful, it pays attention to highlighting the characters through the description of specific and vivid plots, imitating sound and painting, the brushstrokes are exquisite, the language is concise and neat, and the details are rigorous. In addition, the book appends a large number of dictionaries and essays, which is one of the reasons why later writers prefer the Book of Han, but it also affects the concentration of its narrative and the distinctiveness and prominence of its characters.
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The author of the Book of Han is Ban Gu. The Book of Han was written by Ban Gu, a historian of the Eastern Han Dynasty in China.
The Book of Han is China's first chronicle of dynastic history, and the record of the Book of Han is mainly based on the Western Han Dynasty, starting from the first year of Gaozu of the Han Dynasty and ending with the fourth year of Emperor Mangdi, a total of 230 years of history. The style of the "Book of Han" is all inherited from the "Historical Records", but the "book" is changed to "Zhi", and the "family" is merged into the "Biography", and the whole book has 12 "Ji", 8 "Table", 10 "Zhi", and 70 "Biography", all 100 articles, a total of more than 800,000 words.
HistoryIn the Tang Dynasty, Yan Shigu thought that the volume of the Book of Han was heavy, so he divided the longer ones into the upper and lower volumes or the upper, middle and lower volumes, which became the current 120 volumes of the Book of Han.
The historical materials of the Book of Han are very rich and detailed, and the eras recorded in the book overlap with the Historical Records, and the history of the Western Han Dynasty before the middle of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty is described in both books. In this part of the Book of Han, most of the old texts of the "Historical Records" are used, but due to the differences in the authors' ideas and the different criteria for material selection, there are additions, deletions and changes when transferring.
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