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Zizhi Tongjian" is a multi-volume chronicle edited by Sima Guang of the Northern Song Dynasty, with a total of 294 volumes and completed in 19 years. Mainly based on time and events, the great attendant began to write from the twenty-third year of King Weilie of Zhou, and stopped writing in the sixth year of Zhou Shizong Xiande's expedition to Huainan five generations later, covering the history of 16 dynasties and 1362 years.

The whole book is divided into 16 periods according to dynasties, namely five volumes of the Zhou Dynasty, three volumes of the Qin Dynasty, sixty volumes of the Han Dynasty, ten volumes of the Wei Dynasty, forty volumes of the Jin Dynasty, sixteen volumes of the Song Dynasty, ten volumes of the Qi Dynasty, twenty-two volumes of the Liang Dynasty, ten volumes of the Chen Dynasty, eight volumes of the Sui Dynasty, eighty-one volumes of the Tang Dynasty, six volumes of the Later Liang Dynasty, eight volumes of the Later Tang Dynasty, six volumes of the Later Jin Dynasty, four volumes of the Later Han Dynasty, and five volumes of the Later Zhou Dynasty.

The content of the book focuses on political, military, and ethnic relations, as well as the evaluation of economic, cultural, and historical figures, with the aim of warning future generations through descriptions of 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.

Sima Guang studied and worked hard, and spent most of his life compiling the "Zizhi Tongjian" (a total of 19 years, from the three years of Yingzong Yeping, from 166 AD to the seventh year of Shenzong Yuanfeng, and the 184th year of Gongda Socks).He said in the "General Guide to the Governance of Funds": "The strength of the day is insufficient, followed by the night", and "the energy is exhausted in this book".

Zizhi Tongjian" is the largest chronicle in our country, the whole book has a total of 294 volumes, through the ancient and modern, from the early Warring States period Han, Zhao, Wei three families divided into Jin (43 BC), down to the end of the five dynasties (Later Liang, Later Tang, Later Jin, Later Han, Later Zhou) Zhao Kuangyin (yìn) (Song Taizu) destroyed before the Zhou Dynasty (959 AD), where 1,362 years. The author elevates the historical pattern of this 1,362 years to the truth, according to the order of the times, with the years and months as the scriptures, and the historical facts as the weft, and writes them in order; The causes and consequences of major historical events are clearly explained in relation to all aspects, so that readers can understand the development of historical facts at a glance.

In addition to the "chronicles" of the past dynasties (the so-called "official history"), it also uses a large number of "miscellaneous histories", anthologies, notes and other related works, examines historical facts, abandons "Fu Rui" and other gods and monsters to delete the complex and simplify, take the essence and use the macro, first by the "contemporary Confucian (knowledgeable scholars, that is, today's historians) (Sima Guang's assistants) Liu Shu (fēn), Liu Shu, Fan Zuyu and other sections of the writing, and then by Sima Guang to delete and polish the total, so the whole book reads like a person's handwriting, There are few contradictions, and the text is concise and fluent, full of literary color.