Hey there, everyone, young and old! Don’t change the channel just yet! Today we’re not here to shoot the breeze. We’re talking about an old history book: The Twenty-Four Histories. Don’t let the scholarly name scare you. Put simply, it’s the twenty-four ledgers our ancestors left behind, covering more than four thousand years, from Pangu creating the world to the end of the Ming, when Chongzhen hanged himself. Who became emperor, who rebelled, who lost a battle, who took a second wife: it’s all recorded, clear as day.
