All the strange books of Chinese history!? The three most curious books in history??

If you keep the current middle school textbooks, modern history and political books, they will definitely belong to strange books in a few hundred years.

Why did I think of Jin Mei?

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Compendium of Materia Medica, Heavenly Creation, Information Governance

1, Su Qin

Su Qin was a native of Luoyang, learned the strategy of combining vertical and horizontal, persuaded the king of Qin, wrote more than ten proposals to no avail, and finally all his money was used up and returned miserably. When he got home, his wife didn't sew for him, his sister-in-law didn't cook for him, and his parents didn't recognize him as a son.

Su Qin sighed and said, "It's all King Qin's no need to copy it, the explanation is that it is the fault of Su Qin himself, but our teacher thinks it is the fault of King Qin, if you want to use Su Qin, it is your fault to change "King Qin" to "me"!" ”

He vowed to study diligently, saying, "How can anything be done?!" "When I was about to fall asleep from reading, I stabbed myself in the thigh with an awl, and the blood flowed to my foot. Later, Qi, Chu, Yan, Zhao, Wei, and Korea were united to rebel against Qin, and then became the seal of the Six Kingdoms.

2, Li Shizhen

During the Ming Dynasty, Li Shizhen turned his back on his father's desire to study Bagu Liberal Arts and Sciences, and devoted himself to reading the medical book "Shennong's Materia Medica", and found that many of the Chinese medicines were not recorded in detail, so he was determined to seriously compile a detailed medical book. He was very serious about every Chinese medicine in the book, and after more than 30 years, he finally completed the "Compendium of Materia Medica".

3. Sima Qian

Sima Qian, in accordance with his father's will, was determined to write a history book that could "hide the famous mountains and pass them on to future generations". In the seventh year when he began to write the history of the state of Hebu, the Li Ling case occurred. In a war with the Xiongnu, Li Ling, the general of the second division, was defeated and surrendered due to being outnumbered.

Sima Qian defended Li Ling, angered Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, ** was imprisoned, and suffered a cruel "rotten punishment".

After being tortured, he planned to commit suicide because of humiliation and pain, but he thought that his dream of writing a history book had not yet been completed. So he endured humiliation and rose up, which lasted a total of 18 years, and finally wrote "Historical Records". This great work has a total of 526,500 words.

It is a precedent for the general history of China's chronicles, which is rich and detailed in historical materials and has always been respected by people. Lu Xun once spoke highly of "Historical Records" in very general language: "The swan song of the historian is the rhyme of the separation." ”

The world's first strange book - "Zhou Yi".

The holy text of military science - "The Art of War".

China's earliest encyclopedia - "Edition.

The Classic of Mountains and Seas" is a masterpiece through the ages - "Historical Records".

The greatest economic document of modern times - Capital

A masterpiece that uses history as a mirror - "Ziye Tongjian".

The earliest collection of Chinese poetry - "Book of Songs".

China's first full-length vernacular history** - "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".

It has to be "The Golden Vase of Plums", a surrealist work, the predecessor of Dream of Red Mansions, and the first of the four strange books.

The Classic of Mountains and Seas is an ancient book of the pre-Qin period, and it is the oldest geography book rich in myths and legends. It mainly describes the ancient version of geography, property, mythology, witchcraft, religion, etc., as well as ancient history, medicine, folklore, ethnicity, etc. In addition, the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" also records some strange events in the form of a running account, and there is still a great deal of controversy about these events.

1. The Four Great Strange Books of the Ming Dynasty refer to "The Golden Bottle", "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Water Margin", and "Journey to the West", and are known as the "Four Great Strange Books" in ancient China.

2. These four parts basically represent the four types of ancient China, namely the world, historical romance, heroes, and demons; In fact, they are the continuation and development of the four main schools of speaking art in the Southern Song Dynasty: that is, "The Golden Vase Plum" is the development of **family**, and it is the first Zhanghui style long story independently created by literati in China; "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is the development of history, and it is the first long chapter in my country; "Water Margin" is about the development of Tie Qi'er, the first chapter hui style written in vernacular in Chinese history**; "Journey to the West" is the development of the Sutra, which is an artistically accomplished and influential masterpiece of romanticism, and the first full-length novel in my country.

3. The masterpiece of historical romance "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", in the form of history as the structure, Chen Shou's "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" has laid the basic framework for it. The author tells the story of the Three Kingdoms, you have me, I have you, and the story of one country is always intrinsically related to the other two countries. As Mao Zonggang said in "Reading the Law of the Three Kingdoms":

The book "Three Kingdoms" has a big response from the beginning to the end, and a big lock in the middle"; "From beginning to end, there is no place to break". This form of structure is rare in Western history** and is known to researchers as a rope-braided structure.

4. The model of the heroic legend "Water Margin", its structural form, in the terminology of Jin Shengsi, is called "Luan Jiao Continuation Method", that is, when describing the experience of a character, he meets another character who does not know each other on a specific occasion, thus leading to the story of another character. For example, Lu Zhishen uprooted the willow tree to lead Lin Chong, and Song Jiang stumbled at Chai Rong's house to lead Wu Song. The key to this structure is to carefully conceive a specific occasion so that the transition from one character story to another must be natural and subtle.

To summarize today, "Water Margin" is a buckle-like structure: after the story of one or two or three heroes is told, it naturally leads to the story of another or two or three heroes, which are interlocking, and finally one hundred and eight heroes gather in Liangshan. Jin Shengsi's "Reading the Fifth Genius Calligraphy" summed it up well:

"Water Margin" came out alone, and it was clearly a biography. As for the intermediate deeds, they are written paragraph by paragraph. ”

5, the leader of gods, demons and monsters, "Journey to the West", its storyline consists of three parts: the birth of Sun Wukong, learning art and rebellion; the reason for learning the scriptures and the origin of Tang monks; The four Tang monks and apprentices took the journey of the West. Due to the limitations of the original Tang monk Xitian scripture story, "Journey to the West" adopts a vertical structure of single-line development.

However, the author, with his superb artistic skills, organically organizes the intricate and bizarre content into a system.

1. In the complete huge structure, people call it a bead chain structure.

"Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Water Margin", and "Journey to the West" are known as the three strange books of the Ming Dynasty;

Hong Yingming's "Caigen Tan" in the Ming Dynasty, Chen Jiru's "The Story of the Small Window" in the Ming Dynasty, and Wang Yongbin's "Night Talk Around the Fireplace" in the Qing Dynasty are known as the "Three Strange Books of Life";

The Classic of Mountains and Seas, together with the Book of Changes and the Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic, are known as the "Three Strange Books of Antiquity".