I want to study history and ask my friends for guidance

First of all, welcome to those who study history!

In my experience, the chronicles of "Zizhi Tongjian" and "Continuation of Zizhi Tongjian" are relatively boring. For those who are new to history, it is difficult to read it, so it is recommended that you first choose some good vernacular general history to read. For example, "Five Thousand Years Up and Down" (a very good popular version of history) cultivates interest in this way.

Then for a certain period of history that you are more interested in, take a look at the relevant dynastic history in the 24 histories. For example, I originally liked to watch "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", so I watched "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and after reading it, it became interesting, and the first part of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, many of which were the original content of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, so it was effortless to read. That's when it's a free choice.

Whether it is "Zizhi Tongjian" or "Twenty-four History" depends on your time and interests. Totally hand-played, hope it helps you!

There is a difference between studying history and being interested in history.

There are really not many people who can read most of the history books.

Zizhi Tongjian is a book written by Sima Guang and specially read by the emperor. It is a book that teaches how to be an emperor, standardizes the emperor's behavior, and sets an example.

The audience of history books is to leave and right people, and they are written for the people of the world.

The great poet Qu Yuan, for example, did not write a word in Zizhi Tongjian, because Sima Guang felt that this story was useless. Guo Xie of the Han Dynasty, Sima Qian used 1,000 words, and Sima Guang just said a few words. It's just because the purpose of writing is different.

Each book will have its own limitations and shortcomings, as well as its essence. It is better to believe in books than to have no books, and your own thinking is more important.

Twenty-four histories are not historical histories, and the family genealogy of the twenty-four surnames is also" The more the history is compiled later, the more it falls into a format, the more empty words are written, the value of reading is not particularly great, and it looks particularly boring, that is, which person was born in which year and what year he did something, and finally add some praise or derogatory words And because it is a descendant to compile history, there are more fallacies and lack of details, and there are fewer questions and answers that you want to see Taking the Ming Dynasty as an example, in historical research, the "History of the Ming Dynasty" can only be used as a reference, because there are too many fallacies and too little information. Generally, the statement of "Ming Shilu" is adopted.

The first four histories are still very good "Historical Records", "Book of Han", "Book of the Later Han" and "Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms", you can read these books first.

But it really takes patience...

I think you can read both books If you want to save money, you can take a look at them on the Internet now, after all, these two books are very good, if you can't find it, you can ask questions and let netizens send you this book, and then you compare it yourself, see which one suits you or that one is well written and worth keeping for a long time to buy this in the bookstore, I personally feel that the general knowledge of governance is better.

The general knowledge of governance is good *** I have read the general knowledge of governance seventeen times and you can learn a lot of things in it In fact, reading this kind of book is not boring and very interesting I also like to read it.

How about Hanshu and Warring States Policy? I feel that the second plan is better, is it a little too fast to start reading the general knowledge of governance?

I remember that the bookstore had a large tome of information and governance, with ancient Chinese on the top and vernacular on the bottom.

Just looking at the vernacular, I don't feel like I have that kind of artistic conception. Moreover, reading ancient texts can also make one's thinking more active. If you look at the vernacular, you don't want to use your brain.

You can read the entire "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", the flagship of the four famous books, and if you understand the Three Kingdoms, everything else is too easy.

It is recommended that you first take a look at the historical records, which are easy to understand, and then go to the Zizhi Tongjian.

I think that to learn history well, first of all, we should have a correct mentality, and the second plan is good.