Are there any books on Chinese characters or Chinese history?

Books about Chinese characters: Xu Shen's Shuowen Jie Zi

Books on Chinese History: Twenty-Four History:

Historical Records (Han Sima Qian) Han Shu (Han Bangu) Later Han Shu (Southern Song Fan Ye).

Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms (Jin Chen Shou) Jin Shu (Tang Fang Xuanling et al.) Song Shu (Southern Dynasty Liang Shen Yue).

The Book of Southern Qi ( Liang Xiao Zixian ) Liang Shu ( Tang Yao Silian ) Chen Shu ( Tang Yao Silian )

Wei Shu (Northern Qi Wei Shu) Northern Qi Shu (Tang Li Baiyao) Zhou Shu (Tang Linghu Dedi, etc.).

Sui Shu (Tang Wei Zheng, etc.), Southern History (Tang Li Yanshou), Northern History (Tang Li Yanshou).

Old Tang Dynasty Books (Later Jin Dynasty, Liu Yun, etc.), New Tang Dynasty Books (Song Ouyang Xiu, Song Qi), Old Five Dynasties History (Song Xue Juzheng, etc.).

History of the New Five Dynasties (Song Ouyang Xiu) History of the Song Dynasty (Yuan and Toto, etc.) and Liao History (Yuan, Toto, etc.).

Jin Shi (Yuan, Toto, etc.), Yuan Shi (Ming, Song Lian, etc.), Ming Shi (Qing, Zhang Tingyu, etc.).

Five Thousand Years Up and Down is a context that records thousands of years of Chinese history. Sima Qian's "Records of the History" is also a very good masterpiece with both historical and literary value. Related Chinese characters, such as "Erya", "Shuowen Jiezi", "Cihai" and so on.

The World of Chinese Characters", "A Brief History of Chinese Characters", "Talking about Chinese Characters", "Words of Chinese Characters", "Manhua Chinese Characters", "Kingdom of Chinese Characters", "Chinese Character Sanlun", "Chinese Character Examples".

Chinese Character Roots", "Zhou Yi Chinese Characters", "Chinese Character Hundred Questions", "Chinese Character Breakthrough", "Chinese Character Imagery", "Chinese Character Jinliang", "Character Qiankun", "Chinese Character Map".

Chinese Character Tongyi Jing", "Critique of Chinese Character Studies", "Chinese Character Entry and Technology", "Examples of Chinese Character Misreading", "Basic Chinese Character Form and Meaning Interpretation Origin".

Chinese Characters Past and Present", "Talking Chinese Characters", "Exploring Chinese Characters", "Chinese Character Deconstruction Design", "Systematics of Chinese Characters", "Chinese Character Misreading and Correcting Examples".

The Structure and Rheology of Chinese Characters", "Essays on the Study of Chinese Characters", "Research on the Reform of Chinese Characters", "Ten Lectures on Chinese Character Studies", "Chinese Character Laws and Literacy Teaching".

General Understanding of Chinese Character Calligraphy", "Analysis of Chinese Character Glyphs", "Research on the Teaching of Chinese Characters as a Foreign Language", "On the Simplification of Chinese Characters", "The Trajectory of Chinese Character Research", "Chinese Character Bridge".

Explanation of Chinese Character Radicals", "Chinese Character Rhetoric", "Chinese Character Construct Dictionary", "Chinese Character Writing Standard Dictionary", "Illustrated Ancient Chinese Characters", "Chinese Character Holographic".

Compilation of Simplified Chinese Characters", "Practical Chinese Character Sketching", "Dictionary of Chinese Character Form and Meaning Analysis", "Simplified Chinese Character Standard Cursive", "Chinese Characters and Ancient Life Customs".

Dictionary of Chinese Character Writing Standards", "Reform of Character Teaching Following the Rules of Chinese Characters", "A Preliminary Study on the Philosophy of Chinese Characters".

1. "Chinese Characters with Stories (Understanding Yourself)".

Chinese Characters with Stories (Understanding Yourself) is an excellent set of books to help children understand and learn Chinese characters. "Chinese Characters with Stories (Understanding Yourself)" leads readers to explore the origin of Chinese characters and understand the evolution of Chinese characters by telling the stories behind them.

2. "Chinese Character Tree".

The history and geography of this book are at your fingertips, the language is rigorous and interesting, and the reading threshold is not high, which allows readers to feel the struggle and imagination of character creation in an immersive way, and also helps native Chinese speakers to re-establish their relationship with Chinese characters.

According to the logical relationship of the manuscript, readers can gradually understand the development process of Chinese characters from shallow to deep, and through radicals and other divergent ways of understanding, readers can quickly understand the logical relationship between different Chinese characters.

3. "The Kingdom of Chinese Characters".

The Kingdom of Chinese Characters tells the characteristics of the origin of Chinese characters in the form of ** and luxuriant, and selects more than 200 words related to people's lives for detailed explanation, such as words related to people's bodies, housing, utensils, silk and linen, livestock, farm tools, vehicles and ships, roads, etc., and analyzes and describes the Chinese's way of life and customs, so as to deepen people's understanding of words.

First published in 1988, by 2018, the book had been translated into seven or eight languages, and is the main reading material for Westerners to learn Chinese.

4. "Detailed Chinese Characters".

A popular book that introduces the basic knowledge of Chinese characters. The original book has been published in the world as "Chinese Character Example Words" and "Chinese Character Example Words Continuation", which is deeply loved by readers. The two volumes have been published under the current title, and more than 460 illustrations related to the content have been selected.

5. "The Evolution of Chinese Characters".

The Evolution of Chinese Characters is a book that studies the evolution of characters, this book selects a total of 500 commonly used Chinese characters (plus more than 660 characters mentioned in the commentary, such as general characters and fake borrowed characters), and each character lists five fonts in turn: pottery script, oracle bone inscription, golden script, small seal, official script, and regular script (some of which have been simplified, plus simplified character Kaishu, a total of nine fonts). The few digits in Jin script are replaced by fonts such as 籀文 or Warring States script.

Oracle bone script, gold script, official script, regular script, line script, cursive script. Probably the context of development is like this, there are a lot of fonts.

The earliest Chinese writing was the hieroglyphs of ancient times, then the oracle bone inscription appeared in the Shang Dynasty, then the small seal of the Qin Dynasty, and then evolved into travel script, regular script, official script, and cursive script.

The earliest Chinese writing was the ancient hieroglyphs, then the oracle bone inscription appeared in the Shang Dynasty, then to the seal script of the Qin Dynasty, and then later evolved into Xingshu, regular script, official script, cursive script, and so on.

Xu Shen of the Eastern Han Dynasty "Shuo Wen Jie Zi".

Shuowen Jie Zi, referred to as Shuowen, is a language reference book compiled by Xu Shen, a scholar and philologist of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Shuowen Jie Zi is one of the earliest Chinese dictionaries in China that systematically analyzes the glyphs of Chinese characters and examines the origin of characters, and it is also one of the earliest dictionaries in the world.

The content of "Shuowen Jie Zi" has a total of 15 volumes, of which the first 14 volumes are text explanations, and the prefix is written in small seals. When this book was compiled, it was the first time that a specific explanation of the "Six Books" was made, explaining the font word by word.

Volume 15 is a narrative that records the origin, development, function, and structure of Chinese characters, as well as the author's purpose. Shuowen Jie Zi is the earliest Chinese dictionary arranged by radicals. The book is divided into 540 radicals, 9,353 characters, and 1,163 "heavy texts" (i.e., variant characters), with a total of 10,516 characters.

About the Author. Xu Shen (c. 58 c. 147 years, a say about 30 c. 121 years), the character Shuzhong, Runan Zhaoling (now Zhaoling District, Luohe City, Henan Province), a famous scholar and philologist in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Xu Shen spent at least 21 years compiling the world's first dictionary, Shuowen Jie Zi, which standardized the shape, sound, and meaning of Chinese characters. Scholars who respect Xu Shen are called "Xu Jun", "Shuowen Jie Zi" is called "Xu Shu", and his learning is called "Xu Xue". Xu Shen has made outstanding contributions to Chinese philology and is known as the "Sage of Characters".

The origin and evolution of Chinese characters: oracle bone script to golden script to small seal script to official script to regular script to cursive script to line script.

The evolution of Chinese characters is a process of gradual standardization and stabilization of Chinese character glyphs and fonts. The small seal fixes the number of strokes for each character; Lishu formed a new pen-shaped system, and the glyphs gradually became flat squares.

After the birth of regular script, the glyph font of Chinese characters was stabilized, and the basic strokes of "horizontal, vertical, apostrophe, point, pinch, pick, and fold" were determined, and the shape of the strokes was further standardized, and the number of strokes and stroke order of each character were also fixed.

The historical value of the Book of Han is very high, and it has supplemented, adjusted and developed the Historical Records, showing its own unique achievements. It has opened up a wider field of historiography and preserved more historical materials of ancient societies, historical figures and cultural classics.

The biographies of the characters in the Book of Han are in a kind of eloquent process, with concise and accurate strokes to outline the characters, so that the images of various characters are vividly displayed. Avoid flat and straightforward narratives, and try to use the characters' words, actions, and details to express their personality and character.

The language of the Book of Han has a tendency to be elegant, and the biographies of the characters in the Book of Han mostly adopt literati rhetoric, and the writing likes to use ancient characters and ancient meanings, and the text is close to the prose style, showing the tendency of the Eastern Han Dynasty prose to be styled. In addition to political and historical literature, the Han Dynasty's essays, letters, and other essays all have their own characteristics.