Notes on the Twenty-two Histories

About This Novel

The historical reading notes of Zhao Yi, a litterateur and historian of the Qing Dynasty, were written in the 60th year of Qianlong's reign (1795). They are a work of textual research on the official histories of the past dynasties, such as "Historical Records", "Hanshu" and "History of the Ming Dynasty". It is as famous as Qian Daxin's "Twenty-Two Histories" and Wang Mingsheng's "Seventeen Histories". What he examined was actually the Twenty-Four Histories, but because the New and Old Tang Books and the New and Old Five Dynasties History were regarded as history books of the same era and were not separated, they were called the Twenty-Two Histories. The author intends to summarize the history of the group. For each historical book, he first describes the history of the work, comments on the pros and cons, and then raises a series of questions. Then he compares historical events with the original book, or quotes miscellaneous histories, elaborates and compares, and puts forward opinions and discussions. There are both comments on historiography and historical events, and there are many important insights that are still worthy of praise today.

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